
Patriotic Primer 

FOR THE 

LITTLE CITIZEN. 


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Auxiliary in Teaching the Youth of Our Country the True 
Principles of American Citizenship. I 


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COLONEL GEO, T. BALCH, 


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INDIANAPOLIS 

WM. B. BURFORD, PRINTER, LITHOGRAPHER AND BINDER 

1895 










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Copyright 1895 

BY 

Walgack Foster. 

















INTRODUCTION. 


Our National Flag having been adopted as an auxiliary in 
Instructing our youth in patriotism, and as a perpetual object 
lesson, it is necessary to introduce American citizenship, 
patriotic history, inspiring literature and music in the public 
schools if we desire to make them good little citizens and 
teach them loyalty and respect to authority and obedience to 
law. 

We rejoice in the widespread interest our American educa¬ 
tors and NOBLE, PATRIOTIC WOMEN are taking in the cause of 
intelligent citizenship by instructing our youth in American 
patriotic history. We believe from present indications, the 
time is not far distant when every child in our land will receive 
its due share of patriotic instructioli. 

It needs no argument to prove that the perpetuation of our 
National life and institutions can be maintained only by incul¬ 
cating in the minds and hearts of the rising generation the 
true principles, enunciated in the Constitution and Declaration 
•of Independence. 

Therefore, whatever we wish to see introduced into the life 
of a nation must lirst be introduced into the life of its schools. 
In view of this educational axiom, and with the hope of awak¬ 
ening a wider and more intelligent interest in the history of 
our Republic, we must increase our interest for a grateful, rev¬ 
erent admiration for God; our Country; our Language, and 
our Flag. 

In consideration thereof and in memory of the late Col. 
Geo. T. Balch, the author dedicates the “American Patriotic 
Primer for the Little Citizen ” to our boys and girls attending 
the public schools, with a fervent wish that their love for their 
<jountry and flag may increase day by day and graduate them 
noble, generous, law-abiding, loyal American citizens. 

W. F. 


GOD WANTS THE BOYS AND GIRLS. 


God wants the boys, the merry, merry boys^ 
The noisy boys, the funny boys. 

The thoughtless boys; 

God wants the boys with all their joys, 

That He as gold may make them pure. 

And teach them trials to endure; 

His heroes brave He’ll have them be, 
Fighting for truth and purity. 

(irod wants the boys. 

God wants the happy-hearted girls. 

The loving girls, the best of girls. 

The worst of girls; 

God wants to make the girls His pearls. 

And so reflect His Holy face. 

And bring to mind His wondrous grace, 
That beautiful the world may be. 

And filled with love and purity. 

God wants tlie girls. 




A PATRIOTIC PRIMER FOR THE 
LITTLE CITIZEN. 


1. What is your Country f 

The United States of America. 

Who govern in the United States of America f 

In the United States of America, in which we live and which 
is our country^ we, The People, .govern ourselves. 

3. What are the principles on which government by the people is 

based ? 

The system of government by the people rests upon two great 
political principles, imbedded in the Declaration of Independ¬ 
ence, as proclaimed by our revolutionary forefathers at Phila¬ 
delphia, July 4, 1776. 

4. What great principles did the Declaration of Independence 

proclaim f 

1. The right of the whole body of the people to govern 
themselves, to make their own government. 2. The equality 
of all men before the law. 

The reason why the people in these United States have for 
more than one hundred years successfully governed themselves 
is, that a tirm belief in the justice of these principles has taught 
them to trust one another, has trained them to believe in one 
another, has educated them to respect the rights and the opin¬ 
ions of one another. 

5. How does oar Government differ from a Monarchy‘s 

In the United States we have neither Emperor nor King, 
Queen or Kobles. The people choose their own officers. 



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6. What is a Democracy f 

A government ot the people by the people for the people^ 
is called a Democracy. A government of the whole people by 
each one of the people deciding for himself what he will do or 
what he will not do. 

7. What is a Republic f 

When the people choose some person to stand for them, to 
do what they want him to do, or to say what they want him to 
say, such a person is called their Representative. All the 
representatives chosen by the people, taken together, make 
what we call the Government. Such a government is called a 
Representative Government or a Republic. 

8. ^hat do we understand by States f 

Large countries are usually divided for convenience of local 
government into several parts. In our own country these sub¬ 
divisions are now forty-four in number, and are called States. 
Each State is a Republic having its own Representative Gov¬ 
ernment. 

9. When was our Republic formed"^ 

More than a hundred years ago, after the War of the Revo¬ 
lution. 

10. What is the Union f 

The uniting of one or more States into one combination, is- 
called a Union. These forty-four American States have chosen 
to unite themselves in this manner. This union is called The 
United States of America. Another name for it is the Great 
Republic. 

11. When was the Union formed f 

At the close of the Revolutionary War. 

12. How many States formed the origincd Union f 

Thirteen. 

13. What are they 

New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut,. 
New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland,. 
Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia, 


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H. How wert the other thirty-one States formed 

At the time of the formation of the Union several of the 
States owned large tracts of land that were but thinly settled, 
and other large tracts have since been acquired by the United 
States. As fast as portions of this country large enough for a 
State became thickly enough settled, a State government was 
formed and the new State admitted into the Union. 

15. What is the Constitution of the United, States f 

These forty-four States have entered into a solemn agree¬ 
ment, each with the others, to establish a government which 
all will support, obey and defend; and to do their business 
with one another and to regulate their conduct toward each 
other, and their conduct toward all the other peoples in the 
world, according to the requirements of a document called 
The Constitution of the United States. 

16. What is the Nation f 

All the people living in these forty-four States, that is the 
sixty-five millions of inhabitants in this country of ours, taken 
together, form what is known as The Nation. In other coun¬ 
tries the Emperor, the King, or the Queen is known to the 
people as the Sovereign, and in those countries the Sovereign 
represents the Nation. In the United States The Nation is 
THE Sovereign, and this is why we often speak of the Sover¬ 
eign People. In this country, therefore, the goverument is but 
the machinery through which, or by which. The Nation rules. 

17. What Six Objects are Expressed in the Constitution of the 

United States? 

The American Nation, speaking in all its majesty and 
power in this Constitution, says, “ We, the people of the United 
States, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United 
States of America,” and then sets forth the six great objects 
of this document and of all good government, which are as 
follows: 

I. To form a more perfect Union. 2. To establish justice. 
3. To insure domestic tranquility. 4. To provide for the com¬ 
mon defense. 5. To j^romote the general welfare, and (3* To 
secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity. 


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18. What was the War of the Revolution ? 

The American Colonies, thirteen in number, rebelled against 
Great Britain, in 1776, and proclaimed the Declaration of In¬ 
dependence and the right to govern themselves. 

19. What were the Chief Causes of the Revolutionary War f 

First. —The right of arbitrary government claimed by Great 
Britain and denied by the Colonies. 

Second. —The influence of France, exerted constantly so as 
to incite a spirit of resistance. 

Third. —The natural disposition and inherited character of 
the Colonists, republican in politics and dissenters in religion. 

Fourth. —The growth of public opinion in the Colonies 
tended to independence. 

Fifth. —The personal character of George III, altogether 
too despotic. 

Sixth. —The passage by Parliament of a number of acts 
destructive of Colonial liberty, resisted by the Colonies, and 
attempted enforcement with the bayonet by Great Britain. 

Seventh. —The declaration by the Colonists on account of 
the conditions given above of their complete independence 
from British rule. 

20. What were the Chief Results of the War ? 

Independence of the Colonies and the formation of a new 
Nation. 

21. What were Causes of the War of 1812 

First. —The closing of the ports of Europe by England 
against American commerce. 

Second. —Impressment of American sailors of English birth, 
based upon the doctrine that a person born on English soil is 
an English subject. The United States claimed that men may 
give up their inherited citizenship and transfer their allegiance 
to other countries. 

22. How was War Declared f , . 

By proclamation June 19, 1812. 


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"23. When was the Treaty Agreed To F 

December 24, 1814. 

2If.. What Caused the Mexican Wctrf 

First.— Mexico claimed Texas as part of her territory, not- 
-withstanding its independence was acknowledged by the 
United States, England, France and other Governments. The 
United States, by annexation, claimed the Rio Grande as the 
’ Texan boundary, while Mexico alleged the western limit of 
the Province never extended west of the IN’ueces River. The 
■ crossing by General Taylor was considered the commencement 
of war, and Mexico made the attack. 

Second. —Impoverished by civil war, Mexico did not hesitate 
to replenish her treasury by plundering American vessels in 
the Gulf of Mexico, also confiscated property of American 
merchants within her borders, covered by treaty, 1831, but not 
lived up to. 

Third.—Internal Politics, on both sides. 

25. When was War Declared 

May 13, 1846. 

26. When was the Treaty Agreed Tof 

February 2, 1848. 

27. What Caused the War of the Rebellion f 

Conflict between the Slave States and the Free States, and 
the doctrine of State rights, culminating in the Election of 
Abraham Lincoln. 

28. What were the Costs of the Great Warsf 

To maintain the Constitution in its integrity and to preserve 
the Unity of the IS'ation thirty years ago, nearly five years of 
terrible war was fought, in which seven hundred thousand men 
laid down their lives that this N'ation might live. So we see 
that this Constitution of the Nation is a very precious instru¬ 
ment to all Americans, a monument of human wisdom which 
this great Nation stands ready to-day, and will ever stand ready, 
to defend against the assaults of any power that dares to med¬ 
dle with or to oppose it. 


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^9, Whot is a Citizen of the United States f 

This Constitution says that ‘‘all persons born or naturalized 
in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are 
citizens of the United States and of the State in which they 
reside.” 

30. How is a Foreigner Naturalized f 

In order that a citizen of another country may become au; 
American citizen and enjoy all the rights and privileges of such 
citizenship, he must declare on his oath “that he will support 
the Constitution of the United States, and that he absolutely 
and entirely renounces and abjures all allegiance to his former 
sovereign, and particularly to the prince or potentate of which 
he was a subject.” He must further prove that he has lived 
within the United States for live years, at least one year in the 
State, and that he has borne a good moral character. 

31. Can a Citizen be of any Color., Race or Religion ^ 

A citizen may be of any color, may be born in any other 
country, or may be a Christian, a Hebrew, a Mohammedan, a 
Confucian or an Intidel; so long as he obeys the laws, no matter' 
what his color, his nationality or his religion, he is entitled to 
all the rights which citizenship confers. 

33. What is a Little Citizen f 

Every little boy or girl born in this country, or if born in any 
other country, whose parents have been naturalized, is a Little: 
American Citizen, who is learning every day how to be a big 
citizen. There are more than Seventeen Millions of Such 
Little Ciiizens between the ages of three and fifteen years in 
the United States to-day. 

33. How do the Citizens Govern f 

The way the citizens govern is either by voting for the person 
whom they want to represent them, or who will say what the 
people want him to say, or by voting for that thing they would 
like to do or to have done, or against that thing which they 
do not want to do or to have done. 


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SIf., What is a Voter and a Ballot 

The citizen who votes is called a voter or an elector, and the 
right of voting is called the suffrage. The voter puts on a 
piece ot paper what he wants. Such a piece of paper is called 
a ballot. 

The Gift of Citizenship is from the Nation, but the suffrage 
is conferred and regulated by the State. 

35. Why is an Education a Necessity in a Mepublicf 

In this country where the people govern, it is of the highest 
importance, not only that the people should be intelligent, but 
that their intelligence should be educated. Ignorance is the 
most dangerous of enemies in a government of the people. If 
the people are without knowledge and are unable to avail them¬ 
selves of the experience of the past, they can never govern 
either wisely or well; to Govern Others Therefore We Mi st 
First Learn to Govern Ourselves. 

36. What is Public Education and the School of the People f 

Out of this great necessity of learning how best to govern 
ourselves has gradually grown up in the United States a system 
of Public Education. Each one of the forty-four States ot‘ the 
Union, as a matter of self protection against the evil of igno¬ 
rance, has undertaken to see that its people are duly prepared 
for American Citizenship. To that end, therefore, there has 
been established by law in each State a system of public 
schools— the Schools of the People. 

37. How Can We Learn to Govern Ourselees f 

By helping the public schools in their work of teaching us 
how to Govern Ourselves, so that in a few years we shall be 
fully prepared to earn an honest living and shall know how to 
help govern the people and how to help make the laws. 

33. What is the Aim of the Public School f 

The public school aims to do two separate things for us : 

First. To train us in such habits of behavior as will best tit 
us to become Good Members of Civil Society and Patru-tic 
American Citizens. 




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Second. To instruct us through the arts of reading and 
writing in the use of hooks, in order that we may gain, and 
learn how best to use the knowledge, which millions of wise 
men and women, who have lived in other times, under all sorts 
of conditions and in all parts of the world, have discovered and 
recorded for our use. 

39. What Must We Do When Training in Behavior f 

The first step in learning to govern ourselves is to learn how 
to obey —to be Obedient to Government. 

^0. What is a Government of the Family f 

We came under a government when we were born; that 
government was the Government of the Family. One of our 
first lessons at home was to obey the authority of our parents 
or guardian. We did this because very young children do not 
know what is best for them, and so for their own good they 
must he obedient to home rule. Our home, therefore, is the 
first school in which we learn to be little citizens; and so we 
see how necessary the right kind of a home is, if we wish to 
become good citizens. 

4-1. What is a Government of the School f 

From our home we go to the school, and here we find a new 
kind of government, the Government of the School. At the 
head of this government is our principal with teachers to 
assist in governing. 

Now what is this government for? For the good of one 
little scholar only, like the home school? No; but to secure 
the greatest good for all the scholars from many homes. 
We have seen that this great Republic in which we live is 
made up of citizens, a great many of whom have come from 
foreign lands. So, likewise, in this school, we find children 
whose parents came from many countries; sometimes as many 
as twelve different nations are represented in one school. 


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^2, Why is the School Called a Little Bepublicf * 

The school, as regards the children, is a Little American* 
j Republic, made up of Little Citizens. It is in this little- 
Republic that we find ourselves for the first time as one among 
many, and that we are brought into public contact with other 
children of our own age, who have equal rights with ourselves. 
It is in this school that we are to be taught one of the great 
lessons of life— to respect the rights and opinions of others,. 
no matter what may be our schoolmate’s color, or race, or re¬ 
ligion, or birth-place; no matter whether their parents have 
very little money, or a great deal of money, or what may be 
their occupation. We are all a part of the Great American 
Hation, which stands for equal rights for all before the law. 

iS. What is the Object of School Laws and How Are We to- 
Obey Them f 

The first thing, therefore, we little citizens of this school 
must do, is to obey its rules and laws. The object of these 
rules and laws is to train us all in regularity, punctuality, self- 
restraint, industry, order and truthful accuracy in all our work, 
and this is the way we can best help our teachers and perfect 
ourselves in good behavior. 

4.4,. What is Our Duty to Ourselves f 

We must not miss a single day at school, and must be punc-^ 
tual every morning and every afternoon. 

We must come to school with a clean face, clean hands and' 
clean clothes. We must be neat in our person and in our 
dress. 

We must be orderly, and have a place for each of our 
things, and we must try to keep each thing in its place. 

We must be very attentive to what we are studying or 
doing, and do it with all our might. 

We must try to keep our temper always and never get into 
a passion, no matter how much we may be provoked. 

We must always be cheerful and never lose our courage. 

We must never be afraid to tell the whole truth. 

Lastly, we must try to do right because it is right, and so we^ 
shall all learn how to respect ourselves. 


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IpT). WhTit is Oar Duty to Oar Associates f 

We must always obey and be respectf'ul to our teachers, 
listening attentively when they are speaking, because they arc 
older than we are, and know so much more than we do. 

We must he kind and polite to all our school-mates, always 
respecting their rights and never taking advantage of them 
because we are stronger or bigger than they are, or because we 
think we know more than they know. Only cowards oppress 
those weaker than themselves 

We must never wantonly hurt a dumb animal, hut must 
treat all animals kindly. 

Lastly, we must never forget that we are Liitle American 
Citizens ; proud of our home, proud of our school and proud 
of our country. 

And so we shall learn little by little, day by day, how to 
govern ourselves, and when we can do that and are grown up, 
we shall know something about governing other people, and- 
how to help make laws for our country. 

46'. y^haf Do We No a) Know? 

We now know a little about what a representative govern¬ 
ment is, what a republic is, what a citizen is; that a citizen of 
one State enjoys all the rights of a citizen of the forty-three 
other States, because he is a citizen of the United States; what 
the ballot and voting is; that the Constitution of the United 
States is the supreme law of the land; how many, many years 
it took the colonists and the American nation to firmly estab¬ 
lish this government of the people, and how much treasure 
and the lives of how many thousand men it has cost to estab¬ 
lish, defend, preserve and maintain it. 

47 . What Do We Want to Know f 

We want to learn a great deal more about our rights and 
our duties, both as little American citizens and grown up citi¬ 
zens, and about the machinery or method that the people use 
to govern the village, or the town, or the city, the county, and 
the State in which we live, and how all these separate govern¬ 
ments fit into, and work smoothly with, the government of the 
whole United States under the Constitution \ve have b’eeh talk¬ 
ing about. 


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is. What Must we Learn F 

All this and a great deal more, we must learn in order that 
when we grow up we may be the Most Intelligent, the 
Most Law-Respecting and the Most Patriotic of American 
Citizens, but w’e have learned enough to understand that this 
great and prosperous country in which we are growing up 
is doing wondertul things for each one of us, although as yet 
we can do very little for it. 

4.9. What Does this Country of Ours do for usf 

It protects us and our parents and friends day and night 
from harm of all kinds ; it protects us all in the enjoyment of 
the rights of citizenship; it treats all alike, no matter what 
their color, their birthplace or their religion; it enables our 
parents to feed and shelter and clothe us, and it gives us 
friends to help us and he kind to us. 

JjO. Why do we BespecA. this Nation f 

Because we feel a profound respect for this United States, 
and for the brave men who in the days of the Revolution, 
dared to risk their lives and fortunes that America might he 
a free land, and that we who came after them might perpetuate 
and enjoj' the blessings of liberty. 

f)L Why do we Especially Love Our County'^ 

Because we feel especially thankful, and Love Our Country 
for giving us such opportunities for education, free of all cost 
to our parents. For giving us the privilege of coming to this 
pleasant school with its light, warm and cheerful rooms, tilled 
with conveniences for teaching us. For giving us these kind 
and patient teachers to help us learn so much that we want 
to know, and who have taught us the patriotic songs, the sing¬ 
ing of which we enjoy so much. 

How, then, can we Best Express our Bespect and Love 

By giving to our country in return for all these benefits and 
gifts, the best we have, and that is, our heads and hearts. 
Our head is the seat of our mind and our intellect; our heart 


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is the fountain of our affections and our love. These are our 
dearest possessions. God is love, and gives us all these bles¬ 
sings ; therefore it is right that we shall recognize first of all 
the Ruler of the universe, the Almighty God. Hence we give 
our heads and our hearts to God first, and our country after¬ 
wards, so that we shall be brought very close to the Creator, 
and His Spirit shall abide with us day by day, and make us 
better and happier for it. 

55. What is the Symbol of Our Nation f 

The symbol of the Nation is the national flag, the stars and 
STRIPES. It Stands for Our Home, for Our School, for Our 
Country. The honor of the Nation is the honor of its flag, 
and thus we do honor to the Nation in honoring the flag. 

54- What do we Mean by the Salutation of the Flag f 

The mark of respect among all nations is uncovering the 
head, the expression of love is to touch the heart. Hence we 
have been taught to say—as we touch, first our foreheads, and 
next our hearts —“We Give Our Heads!—and Our Hearts! 
—TO God ! and Our Country ! ’’ 

In a country where people from many nations are gathered 
together to enjoy the inestimable blessings which America of¬ 
fers, we little citizens think it right and just that American 
principles, the American language and the American flag 
Should be Supreme Over all Others, and so we complete our 
salute with the words, “One Country!—One Language!—One 
Flag ! ” 

56. What is this Mark of Bespect Called f 

This mark of respect and love we feel for God, our country 
and flag, we call “ The American Patriotic Salute,” and the 
boys and girls who enlist under the banner, and use the sa¬ 
lute are loyal volunteers in the Grand Army of Patrfotic 
Americans, marching shoulder to shoulder in the cause of our- 
country and flag. 


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56, Why Shoy Id We Feel Pro ud when we Salute Our Flag f 

When we salute the flag, we will remember that we do it 
by virtue of the free will of this school. When we rise in our 
places to perform this patriotic act, we will shout joyfully, 
and will salute our country through its flag with our whole 
soul. Let us be proud of our country, and as we learn more 
about its wonderful history, may we become more and more 
Grateful to God for all the inestimable privileges, rights and 
blessings which are ours to enjoy, and may we never, I^ever 
do an acf unworthy of the proud title of A Citizen of the 
United States of America. 

57, Where Can we Receive Further Information in Regard to 
the Early History of Our Country f 

By reading carefully and studying the “ Declaration of In¬ 
dependence,” and the “ Constitution of the United States of 
America.” 


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ORIGIN AND HISTORY 

OF OUR 

NATIONAL HYMNS AND PATRIOTIC SONGS. 


Our national hymns and songs liav^e l)een a power in elec¬ 
trifying the heart of the American patriot, and are now in¬ 
spiring millions of little citizens in the public schools of our 
native land with tender emotions for their country and Hag. 


THE AMERICAN FLAG. 

The author of this soul inspiring song and poem, Joseph 
Rodman Drake, was horn in 'New Y^ork, August 7, 1795, and 
died September 21, 1820. 

The ‘‘American Flag” was written between the 20th and 
25th days of May, 1819, when the author was not quite 
twenty-four, and originally concluded with the following lines: 

“As fixed as yonder orb divine 

That saw the bannered blaze unfurled, 

Shall thy proud stars resplendent shine, 

The guard and glory of the world!” 

These lines not being satisfactory to Mr. Drake, he consulted 
his friend Fitz Green Halleck to suggest a better stanza. Mr. 
Halleck in a glowing burst of patriotism sat down and wrote 
the four concluding lines, which are as follows: 

“Forever fioat that standard sheet! 

Where breaths no foe but falls before us, 

With Freedom’s soil beneath our feet, 

And Freedom’s baunner streaming o’er us.” 

The poem from the beginning to the conclusion, breathes a 
pure patriotism that is from the heart, inspired by the love of 
country, and awakens the tenderest emotions of the soul and 
body of every one who reads it. 


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Joseph Rodman Drake. 


THE AMERICAN FLAG. 


Music by Bellini. 



When Freedom from her mountain 
heiglit 

Unfurled her standard to the air, 

She tore the azure robe of night, 

And set the stars of glory there! 

She mingles with its gorgeous dyes 
The milky bald rick of the skies, 

And striped its pure celestial white 
With streakings of the morning light. 
Then, from her mansion in the sun. 

She called her eagle bearer down. 
And gave into his mighty hand 
The symbol of her chosen land. 

Majestic monarch of the cloud ! 

Who rear’st aloft thy regal form. 

To hear the tempest trumping loud, 
And see the lightning lances driven. 
When strive the warriors of the storm, 
And rolls the thunder-drum of 
heaven! 

Child of the sun ! to thee ’tis given 
To guard the banner of the free! 

To hover in the sulphur smoke. 

To ward away the battle stroke. 

And bid its blendings shine afar. 

Like rainbows on the clouds of war. 


Flag of the brave! thy folds shall Hy, 
'I’he sign of hope and triumph high! 
When speaks the signal trumpet tone. 
And the long line comes gleaming on; 
Fre yet the life-blood, warm and wet, 
Has dimm’d the glist’ning bayonet— 
Each soldier eye shall brightly turn 
'Po where thy sky-born glories burn. 
Flag of the free heart’s hope and home. 
By angel hands to valor given! 

Thy stars have lit the welkin dome. 
And all thy hues were born in 
heaven. 

Flag of the seas! on ocean’s wave 
Thy stars shall glitter o’er the brave. 
When death, careering on the gale, 
Sweeps darkly round the bellied sail. 
And frighted waves rush wildly back 
Before the broadside’s reeling rack; 

The dying wanderer of the sea 
Shall look at once to heav’n and thee. 
Forever float that standard sheet! 

Where breathes no foe but falls be¬ 
fore us. 

With Freedom’s soil beneath our feet. 
And Freedom’s banner streaming 
o’er us. 














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AMERICA. 

My Country ’Tis of Thee. 


The author, Kev. S. F. Smith, was born in Boston, Mass.^ 
October 21, 1808, and is an honored member of the Baptist de¬ 
nomination, residing at Newton Centre, Mass. Br. Smith was 
graduated from Harvard in the famous class of 1829, with 
Oliver Wendel Holmes. Was graduated from Andover in 
1832, and entered the ministry in 1834. 

“America” was written while he was a student at Andover. 
The melody is that of a German hymn in a collection Avhich 
Dr. Lowell Mason brought to him for translation. Turning 
over the leaves of the book, one gloomy day in February, 1832,. 
he came across the air—“ God Save the King.” He liked the 
music, and glanced at the German words at the foot of the page, 
and under the inspiration of the moment took up his pen and 
in half an hour the grand old hymn was born. The young 
student had no idea at the time how much he had done for his 
country. 

The hymn was first used at a children’s Fourth of July cele¬ 
bration at Park Church, Boston, and the results were surpris¬ 
ing. The fervent lines leaped like wild fire from lip to lip, and 
from heart to heart all over our blessed land filling the soul 
with loyalty to God and our country. It has been sung in 
every nation in the world. From the highest peak above the 
clouds in the Rocky Mountains, was an inspiration to the sol¬ 
diers both North and South during the War of the Rebellion 
and stimulated them on the march, in camp and in the hospital. 
Its words have been chanted from the decks of our ships and 
war vessels under the Stars and Stripes. It has been sung by 
more than 18,000,000 children in our Sunday and public schools. 
It breathes a pure love for God and our country and fills the 
soul with intense love and patriotism. 



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AMERICA. 


MY COUNTRY ’TI8 OF THEE. 



My coun- try, ^’tis of thee Sweet land of lib - er- ly, 

My native coun- try, thee—Land of the no - ble, free- 





Of thee I sing ; Land where nry fa-thers died, Land of the 

Thy name I love; I love thy rocks and rills, Thy woods and 



pilgrim’s pride. From ev-’ry 
templed hills My heart with 


3 Let music swell the breeze, 
And ring from all the trees, 
Sweet freedom’s song; 

Let mortal tongues awake; 
Let all that breathe partake; 
Let rocks their silence break ; 
The sound prolong. 


mountain side Let free- dom ring, 
rapture thrills Like that a - bove. 

4 Our father’s Ood, to Thee, 
Author of liberty. 

To Thee we sing: 

Long may our land lie bright 
With freedom’s holy light; 
Lrotect us by Thy might, 
Oreat God our King. 


PATRIOTISM IN YOUTH. 


A group of seventeen young girls, with their teacher, on the 
day before Memorial Day, were making button-hole bouquets 
for the veterans in a Western city. Rev. S. F. Smith, D. D., 
author of “My Country ’Tis of Thee,” was present,and while 
they intermingled patriotic songs with their graceful labors, 
wrote the following description of the scene: 


Sweet in the innocence of youth. 

Born of the brave and free, 

They wove fair garlands while they sang 
“My Country ’Tis of Thee,” _ 

How every bosom swelled with joy. 

And thrilled with grateful pride. 

As, fond their whispering cadence 
breath’d 

“Land where my fathers died. 

Fair flowers in sweet bouquets they tied. 
Breaths from the vales and hills, _ 
While childish voices poured the strain, 
“I love thy rocks and rills. 

Each face grew radiant with the thought 
“Land of the noble free.” 

Each voice seemed reverent as it trilled 
“Sweet land of liberty.” 


And bud and bloom, and leaf they bound, 
And bade the living keep 
Unharmed and pure the cherished 
graves 

Where brave men calmly sleep; 

And thus while infant lips begin 
To lisp “Sweet freedom’s song,” 
Manhoods deep tones from age to age, 
Shall still “The sound prolong.” 

I hailed the promise of the scene, 
Gladness was in the strain ; 

The glorious land is safe while love 
Still swells the glad refrain: 

And what shall be our sure defense? 

Who guards our liberty? 

Not men, not arms alone—we look 
“Our father’s God, to Thee.” 














































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THE STAR SPANGLED BANNER. 


The author of this soul inspiring lyric, Francis Scott ITey,. 
was born August 9, 1780, at Terra Rubra, near Double Pipe 
Creek, Carroll County, Md., and died in Baltimore, January 
11 , 1848. His remains were removed September, 1866, to 
Frederick, Md., and reinterred in Mt. Olivet Cemetery. 

Francis Scott Key was a lawyer by profession and the song, 
which has immoralized his name and become national, was in¬ 
spired by him while a prisoner on board of the Cartel Ship 
Minden, witnessing the bombardment of Fort McHenry, Md.,., 
by the British, between midnight and dawn September 13, 
1814. The scene which he described made his heart sick with 
anxiety; the warm patriotism breathed in the song was not 
the offspring of fancy or mere sentiment or poetic imagina¬ 
tion. He describes what he actually saw in the dim light of 
that September morning, and tells us how he felt when he 
could not see the flag through the smoke of battle, and wbat 
his feelings were when the battle was over, and the victory 
won by his countrymen. Every word came warm from the- 
depths of his throbbing heart and filled his soul with thankful¬ 
ness to the Divine hand that turned the tide of battle for 
Liberty. 

The song was first published September 21, 1814, in the 
Baltimore American,” and was first sung in a tavern adjoin¬ 
ing the Haliday Street Theatre, by Charles Durang, and then 
in the theater, where it took the popular fancy until the entire 
audience seemed inspired by its pathetic eloquence. The song 
filled the hearts of citizens and soldiers alike with intense en¬ 
thusiasm and never fails to find a patriotic response in the 
hearts of those who listen to the glorious hymn. 



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STAR SPANGLED BANNER. 



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1. Usiy can you seeby the dawn's early light, What so proudly we hail’d at the 

2. On the shore dimly seen thro’the mists of the deep,Where the foe’s haughty host in dread 

3. And where is that band whoso vaunlingly swore,That the havoc of war and the 

4. Ok thus be it ever when Freemen shall stand Between their lov’d home.and the 




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twilight’s last gleaming; Whose stripes and brightstars thro’the perilousfight,O’er the 
si-lence re-pos-es; Whatislhatwhichthebreeze,o’erthe towering steep Asit 
bat-tle’s con-fus-ion, A home and a country shall leave us no more— Their 
war’s desolation; Blest with vict’ry and peace,may the Heav’n rescu’d land,Praise the 




ramparts we watch’d were so gallantly streaming; And the rockets’ red glare,the bombs 
fit- ful-ly blows,half conceals,half discloses; Now itcatch- es the gleam of the 
blood has wash’d out their foul footsteps’po-lu-tion No refoge could save the 
Pow’r that hath made and preserv’d us a nation: And this be our motto—“ la 
































































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COLUMBIA, THE GEM OF THE OCEAN. 

SOMETIMES CALLED THE 

RED, WHITE AND BLUE. 


This hymn is known as the army and navy song, as being 
adapted to reunions of the two services. The original song 
was written and composed by David T. Shaw, an actor, under 
the title Columbia, the Land of the Brave,” and was pub¬ 
lished in 1843. Though the name and idea seem to have orig¬ 
inated with Shaw, an American, the words and music, as 
printed and sung, are conceded to Thomas A. Beckett, an 
Englishman, in which it was known by the first name above. 

The hymn was sung for the first time in the fall of 1843, at 
the Chestnut Street Theatre, Pliiladelphia, Pa. 


RED, WHITE AND BLUE. 

COLUMBIA! THE GEM OF THE OCEAN. 

Written and Composed by David T. Shaw. 




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free,The shrine of each patriot’s devotion, A world offers homage to 
-form,The ark then of freedom’s foundation,Columbia,rode safe through the 



Thy mandates make heroes as - semble, 
With her garlands of vict’ry a-round her, 


When 

When 







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Li-ber-ty’s form stands in view, Th , banners’make ty-ran- ny 
so proudly she bore her brave crew,WKh her flag'proudly float-ing 



tremble, When borne by the red,white and blue, 

before her, The boast of the red,white and blue, 

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borne by the red,white and blue,When borne by the red,white and blue,Thy 
boast of the red,white and blue, The boast of the red,white and blue,'With 

banners make tyranny tremble. When borne by the red,white and blue, 
her flag proudly floating before her,The boast of the red, white and blue. 



















































































































HAIL, COLUMBIA. 


The author of “ Hail, Columbia” was the Hoii. Jos. Hop- 
kiusoii, LL. 1> , Vice President of the American Philosophical 
Society, and President of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine 
Arts, etc. 

Mr. Hopkinson wrote the song April, 1798, at his residence, 
132 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, Pa., when he was twenty-eight 
years old. He died in Philadelphia, January 15, 1842. 

The object of Mr. Hopkinson, in writing the song, was to 
unite two parties in our country. It was at a time when war 
with France was thought to be inevitable. The contest be¬ 
tween England and France was raging, and the people of the 
United States were divided in their opinions. To counteract 
any feeling for either England or France, he aimed to arouse 
an American spirit, which should be independent of, and above 
the interests, passion and policy of both belligerents, and look 
and feel exclusively for our honor and rights. 

No allusion is made to France or England or the quarrel be¬ 
tween them, or to the question which was most in fault in their 
treatment of us. 

The song was called for on Saturday, completed on Sunday, 
and sung for the first time on Monday evening at the theatre. 
It was encored and repeated eight times, the audience, at last, 
joining in the chorus. The song had the desired effect in unit¬ 
ing both factions, and was received with great favor an en- 
thusiasni by •Americans everywhere. 



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HAIL! COLUMBIA. 


Maestoso. 


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* 1 . Hail! Cohim- bia.hap • py land,Hail ! ye hero’s heav’n born band, 
2. Immortal patriots rise once more,Defend your i ights.defend your shore. 


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Who tought and Diea in irecuwu a 

Let no rude foe with im - pi- ous hand, Let no rude L>c with 



free-dom’s cause, And when the storm of w-ar was gone, 

im pi - ous hand, In - vade ihe'shrine where sa - cred lies. 



En - joy’d the peace our va - lor won, I,et In de pendence 
Of toil and blood the well earn’d price,While offer ing peace 


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be our boast 
sincere and just, 


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Ev - er mind - ful what it 




cost, 


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In heav’n we place a manly trust, 

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Ev - ergratefiil for the price Let its al - tar reach the skies. 
That truth and justice will prevail. And ev- ery scheme of bondage fail, 


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Firm u - nit- ed let us be Rai- ly ing round our Liber-ty 
Firm u- nit-ed let us . be Ral-ly-mg round our Liber-ty 



as a band of broth-ers join’d peace and safe-ty we shall find, 
as a band of broth ers join’d peace and safe-ty we shall find. 

CHOEUS. * 


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As a band of broth- ers join’d, Peace and safe ly we shall find. 















































































































































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Sound, sound the trump of fame ! let Washington’s great name 
Ring through the world with loud applause, 

Ring through the world with loud applause. 

Let every clime to Freedom dear, listen with a joyful ear. 

With equal skill and God-like power, he govern’d in the fearful hour... 
Of horrid war! or guides, with ease, the happier time of honest peace^. 


YANKEE DOODLE. 


Rear-Admiral Preble, U. S. N., in his most excellent work^, 
^‘History of our Flag,” says : 

“ The introduction of the song to Americans has been 
ascribed to Dr. Shucbhurg, a surgeon of the regular troops in 
Albany, N. Y., about 1737. The common account of tlie 
origin of ‘Y^ankee Doodle,’ which ascribes it to Dr. Shucli- 
hiirg, was written by Nathan II. Carter, and published in tlie 
‘Albany Statesman,’ nearly three-fourths of a century after tlie 
event is said to have happened.” 

The time-honored song seems to be a musical vagabond jukI 
is -wrapped in obscurity, a literary Bohemian. The words are 
older than our Revolution and originated in the time of Charles 
II. While Y^ankee Doodle is National proi)erty, it is not a 
literary treasure of the highest value, however no true born 
Y^ankee is ashamed of the song. 

“’Twill do to whistle, sing or play. 

And is just the tune for fighting.” 

Our American ancestors revived the expression, history has 
emphasized it. Its spirit and sentiment have come down to 
us through many ages to be embodied in American laws, insti¬ 
tutions and character. It keeps alive the memories of the good 
old Continental days, and is }*atriotic music for the present 
generation and will be for the next and next. 



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YANKEE DOODLE. 



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Mind the mu-sic and the step. And with the girls be hand- y. 
Chorus. 


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Yan - kee doo- die keep it up, Yan - kee doo-dle' dan 
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Mmd the mu- sic and the step, And with the girls be hand- y. 


2 And there was General Waslrinaton, 
Upon a snow white charger, 

He look’d as big as all out doors, 
Some thougjit he was much larger. 

o And there they iiad a copper gun. 
Big as a log of maple, 

They lied it to a wooden cart, 

A load for Father’s cattle. 


4 And there I see’d a little keg. 

All bound around with leather. 
They beat it with two little sticks, 
To call the men together. 

5 But I can’t tell you half I see’d. 

They kept up such a smother, 

I took my hat off, made a bow, 
And scamper’d home to Mother. 






















































































































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SALUTE OLD GLORY. 


BY KATE BROWNLEE SHERWOOD. 


This song is dedicated to the 10,000,000 little American cit¬ 
izens who are saluting the dag as part of their school exer¬ 
cises and who are invited to join in the work of the Patriotic 
League for intelligent citizenship. It may be sung to the tune 
of “Dixie.” 


JIail, fairest tiag on land or ocean, 
Setting all the world in motion ! 
Awake! awake! 

Salute the flag! 

Its stars so bright, its stripes so fair; 

Awake! awake! 

No other can with it compare. 

That sails the sea, that rules the air : 
Awake ! awake ! 

Awake ! salute Old Glory ! 


Our flag has felt the tempest’s rattle, 
Blown by all the winds of battle. 
Awake ! awake! 

Salute the flag! 

For you its beauteous folds were torn ; 

Awake ! awake ! 

But now by loyal legions borne. 

It vies the splendors of the morn ; 
Awake! awake ! 

Awake ! salute Old Glory ! 


O, come, ye patriots, to the rally ! 

Come from every hill and valley! 

Awake ! awake! 

Salute the flag ! 

The Stars and Stripes for freedom stand; 
Awake ! awake! 

O, come, and for your country band. 

And pledge your head and heart and hand. 
Awake ! awake! 

Awake ! salute Old Glory ! 





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HOME, SWEET HOME. 


The author of “Home, Sweet Home,” John Howard Payne, 
was born in New York City, June 9, 1792, and died at Tunis, 
April 10,1852. 

John Howard was a leader among the boys in sports and 
lessons too. He raised a little military company which he 
once marched to general training, where Major-General Elliot 
extended a formal invitation to the gallant young captain, who 
led his troops into the ranks to be reviewed with the veterans 
of the*Revolution. 

At the age of thirteen he became a clerk in a mercantile 
house in New York; and while a clerk secretly edited a little 
paper called the ‘ Thespian Mirror.” Payne was an engaging 
youth, he won all hearts by the beauty of his person, his capti¬ 
vating address, the premature richness of his mind, and his 
chaste and flowing utterance, as he was a tine elocutionist. 

When seventeen years old he decided to try the stage, and 
achieved a wonderful success in all the large Eastern cities. 
When twenty years of age he sailed for England and appeared 
in Drury Lane Theater. For twenty years he experienced more 
than the mingling of pleasure and evil fortune. While he was 
much praised his life was sorrowful and hard. He wrote sev¬ 
eral successful dramasj among them was a play entitled “Clari, 
the Maid of Milan,” but at the request of Charles Kemble, 
manager of Convent Garden Theater, the pla}^ was altered into 
an opera and introduced into it the words of “Home, Sweet 
Home.” The song was a great success and enriched all who 
handled it; while the author did not receive even the £25 which 
he reckoned as his share when the manuscript was sold. Payne 
returned to America in 1832, and nine years later received the 
•appointment of American Consul at Tunis. 

In his own words he lamented his life, when he says, “ How 
often while in the large cities of foreign countries have I heard 
persons singing “Home, Sweet Home,” without having a shill¬ 
ing to buy myself the next meal or a place to lay my head.” 



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■‘^The world has literally sung my song until every heart is 
familiar with its melody, yet I have been a wanderer from my 
boyhood.” 

With due consideration for the sorrows of his career he for¬ 
sook his home and associations and voluntarily attached him¬ 
self to a class of adventurers who lived by their wits. Ilis life 
most certainly was a pathetic one, and his song has brought the 
tears to the eyes of many a poor wanderer in a foreign land- 
May the history and song of the author bring sweet content¬ 
ment to every boy and girl who reads or sings the lines. 


’Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, 

Be it ever so humble, there’s no place like home; 

A charm from the skies seems to hallow us there. 

Which seek thro’ the world is ne’er met with elsewhere. 

Chorus. —Home, home, sweet, sweet home, 

There’s no place like home, there’s no place like home. 

I gaze on the moon as I tread the drear wild. 

And feel that my mother now thinks of her child. 

As she looks on that moon from her own cottage door. 

Thro’ the wood-bine whose fragrance shall cheer me no more. 

An exile from home, splendor dazzles in vain; 

Oh, give me my lowly thatch’d cottage again; 

The birds singing gaily, that came at my call; 

Give me them, and that peace of mind, dearer than all. 


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KELLER’S AMERICAN HYMN. 


Speed our Republic, () Father on high; 

Lead us in pathways of justice and right; 

Rulers as well as the ruled, “One and all,” 

Girdle with virtue the armor of night. 

Foremost in battle for freedom we stand, 

We rush to arms when aroused by its call; 

Still, as of yore, when George Washington led. 
Thunders our war-cry, “We comjuer or fall.” 

Faithful and honest to friend and to foe. 

Willing to die in humanity’s cause. 

Thus we defy all tyrannical power. 

While we contend for our Union and laws. 

Rise up, proud eagle, rise up to the clouds; 

Spread thy broad wings o’er this fair western world r 
Fling from thy beak our dear banner of old. 

Show that it still is for freedom unfurled. 

Hail, three times hail, to our country and HagL 
(Repeat last two lines as chorus.) 

Hail, three times hail, to our country and flag! 

Rulers as well as the ruled, “One and all,” 

Girdle with virtue, the armor of night. 

Hail, three times hail, to our country and Hagl 



WASHINGTON’S PATRIOTISM 

AND 

LOVE FOR HIS COUNTRYMEN. 


WALLACE FOSTER. 


The name of Washington is familiar to every boy and 
girl in our country. His fame is widespread, and is known as 
father of our country'' There was in the breast of Wash¬ 
ington one sentiment so deeply felt, so constantly uppermost, 
that no proper occasion escaped without its utterance. In his 
“ Farewell Address to the People of the' United States,” the 
Union was the great object of his thoughts. In this admirable 
bequest, like a true teacher sent from God, he dwells chiefly 
on our Union and brotherly love, in which he had the con¬ 
solation to believe that, while choice and prudence invited 
him to quit the political scene, patriotism did not forbid it. 

In looking forward to the moment in which he was to ter¬ 
minate his career in public life, his feelings did not permit him 
to suspend the deep acknowledgment, that debt of gratitude 
which he owed to his beloved country, for the many honors it 
had conferred upon him, and for the steadfast confidence with 
which it had supported him. He also had the satisfaction of 
knowing in his retirement that the involuntary errors he had 
probably committed, had been the source of no serious or 
lasting mischief to his country; therefore, he expected to realize 
without alloy, the sweet enjoyment of partaking, in the midst 
of his fellow citizens, the benigning influence of good laws 
under a free government, the ever favorite object of his heart, 
and the happy reward for sharing the mutual cares, dangers 
and labors of his countrymen. 

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The birth of true religion appeared to him the one thing 
needful in the spring of political life. On this topic he em¬ 
ployed all the energies of his mind; and in words worthy to 
be written in letters of gold, emphatically besought his coun¬ 
trymen to guard with holiest care “ the unity of the govern¬ 
ment,’’ as the main pillar and palladium of their liberty, their 
independence, and everything most dear to them on earth. 

The constancy of the support of the people was the essen^ 
tial prop of his efforts and guaranteed to him the plans that 
were effected. 

Profoundly penetrated with strong incitement to unceasing 
vows, he appealed that heaven might continue to distribute 
the choicest tokens of its beneficence to the people, that union 
and brotherly affection might be perpetual; that the free con¬ 
stitution might be sacredly maintained; that its administra¬ 
tion in every department might be stamped with wisdom and 
virtue ; that, in fine, the happiness of the people in the thirteen 
States, under the auspices of liberty, might be made complete, 
by so careful a preservation and so prudent a use of this bless¬ 
ing, as will acquire to them the glory of recommending it to 
the applause, the affection and adoption of every nation which 
is yet a stranger to it. 

Love of liberty was interwoven into every fiber of his heart; 
no recommendation is necessary to fortify or confirm the 
attachment. 

The unity of government, which we now enjoy, was dear to 
Washington, and justly so, for it was the main pillar in the 
edifice of the real independence of the people; their support 
and tranquility at home; their peace abroad; their safety and 
prosperity; tliat very liberty, which they so highly prized. 

Washington’s great love for the people of his country made 
him zealous of the immense value of the national union and 
their collective and individual happiness—entreating them to 
cherish a cordial, habitual and immovable attachment for each 
other, accustoming themselves to think and speak of it as of 
the Palladium of their political safety and prosperity; watch¬ 
ing for its preservation with jealous anxiety; discountenanc¬ 
ing whatever may suggest even a suspicion that it can, in any 
event, be abandoned, and indignantly frowning upon the first 


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dawning of every attempt to alienate any portion of their 
country from the rest, or to enfeeble the sacred ties which now 
link together that which they should accustom themselves to 
reverence. 

The name of America inspired the father of our country with 
pride and kindled in his warm heart an unquenchable fire of 
patriotism, illuminating his soul with “ malice toward none, 
and charity for all.” 

Washington was of the same noble spirit as the British 
Admiral Blake, one of the bravest and best patriots in the 
English navy. With all his dislike for Oliver Cromwell, he 
fought gallantly under him, and with his dying breath exhorted 
his men “to love their country as a common mother, and no 
matter what hands the government might fall into to fight for 
her like good children.” So Washington was often called to 
obey men greatly his inferiors, and to execute orders which he 
entirely disapproved, but he was never known to falter. Sensi¬ 
ble of the infinite importance of union and order to the good of 
his country, he ever yielded a prompt obedience to her will, and 
not content with setting us through life so fair an example, he 
leaves us at his death this blessed advice : “ Your government 

claims your utmost confidence and support. Respect for its 
authority, compliance with its laws, acquiescence in its meas¬ 
ures, are duties enjoined by the fundamental maxims of true 
liberty. The basis of our political system is the right of the 
people to make and alter their constitutions of government. 
But the Constitution, which at any time exists until changed 
by an explicit and authentic act of the whole people, is sacredly 
obligatory upon all.” 

‘‘A life how useful to his country led! 

How loved while living! how revered, now dead! 

Lisp! lisp his name, ye children yet unborn, 

And with like deeds your own great name adorn.” 


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OUR CHIEFTAIN, WASHINGTON. 


He knelt where Heaven’s delicious breath 
Perfumed the woods with crimson leaf, 

Here Washington, God's throne besieged 
To bring his countrymen relief. 

Deep anguish like a whirlwind swept 
Our noble chieftain’s heart with care. 

Till quietly away he steals 

And whispers to his God in prayer. 

The guns boom loud—the smoke ascends. 

But through it all Jehovah sees 
That bending form, that pale young brow. 

Pleading beneath the hickory trees. 

Oh, suffering, struggling leader, thou 
Hast won sweet mercy from the skies. 

Cheer up, brave heart, the clouds dispel. 

It is no mirage that thine eyes 

See through the canonaded air. 

But the dear stars and glorious stripes 
That float in signal triumph there. 

Hark! hear him tell those boys in blue. 

Amid the drops of crimson rain. 

Whene’er you feel like faltering—go 
And pray, for Heaven will sustain.” 

— A. E. Thomas. 


GOLDEN SENTIMENTS TO THE MEMORY OF WASHINGTON ' 
FROM THE SONS AND DAUGHTERS OF PATRIOTS. 


Washington fought not for fame, but for liberty. Let his name be perpetu¬ 
ated and each recurring birthday anniversary celebrated .^—Jane C. Harvey, Minn. 

“Enflamed with the study of learning and the admiration of virtue; stirred 
up with high hopes of living to be brave men and worthy patriots, dear to God 
and famous in all ages.” 

“First in peace, first in war, and first in the hearts of his countrymen,” was 
appropriately said of him. He rose above partisanship. He knew no section, 
party or creed.— T. E. Hickman, Ark. 

Washington was the brightest type of American manhood that any nation 
has produced; his deeds are a monument to a well-spent life, and his work for 
his country will never die .—Ann M. Kocher, Penn. 




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O, immortal Washington! Thou greatest of America’s uncrowned kings, 
In the unselfishness of thy love of home and native land, we would approach 
within the halo of thy greatness, and adorn thy brow with the laurel.— Robt. M. 
Smith, III. 

Let every true American hoy and girl resolve on the anniversary of Wash¬ 
ington’s birthday, that they will imitate in their own life, as far as lies within 
their power, the pre-eminent patriotism of the “Father of his country.”— Burt 
Stone, la. 

Well does February 22nd deserve a place among our national holidays; it 
recalls to us the bright name on history’s page, that of Washington, who fought 
for our independence, established our government, and secured the blessings of 
liberty to ourselves and our posterity.— Lillian Knight, Minn. 

To Washington more than any other we owe the existence of our glorious 
Union. It was he who steered the newly-constructed ship of State through the 
raging sea of disordered finance, prostrated commerce, ruined credit and ex¬ 
hausted resources into the placid waters that have brought us to our present 
stupendous greatness. What emotions of gratitude swell our hearts when we 
mention that significant synonym of our free institutions—Washington.— John E. 
Haslacker, West Va. 

Washington was greater than all other men, simply because he was always 
true to himself and his duty. We can all do this if we only will. Let us begin 
now on the opening of our school, and never give uj) till the victory is won. It is 
in this that all “progress and patriotism” lies. Let us remember with pride 
that Washington was an American and we are Americans. We must do our very 
best, as he did. Then, and only then, shall we have nothing to fear in the morn¬ 
ing and nothing to regret at night. That is to live and be free.— Christian Simen- 
son, Minn. 

We see unfurled proudly to the breeze, from the school houses, from the 
public and private buildings of city and hamlet, the stars and stripes, emblem of 
a free and independent country, liberated from the oppressive rule of British 
sovereignty by the valor and discretion of Washington. May we fully realize the 
benefits of a government of the people, for the people and by the people, and pay 
a glowing tribute of respect to the nation, by celebrating the day that gave birth 
to the Father of our Country,— Henry J. Buchen, Wis. 


LINCOLN'S ADDRESS AT GETTYSBURG. 


President Lincoln’s address, when the IN'ational Cemetery at 
Oettysburg, Pa., was dedicated November 19,1863, was in these 
memorable words: 

Fourscore and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth 
upon this continent a new Nation, conceived in Liberty, and 
dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. 



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Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether 
that Nation, or any Nation so conceived and so dedicated, can 
long endure. 

We are met on a great battletield of that war. We have 
come here to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting- 
place for those who here gave their lives that that Nation might 
live. 

It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. 

But in a larger sense, we can not dedicate, we can not conse¬ 
crate, we can not hallow this ground. The brave men, living 
and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above 
our power to add or detract. 

The world will little note, or long remember, what we say 
here; but it can never forget what they did here. 

It is for us, the living, rather to be dedicated here to the un¬ 
finished work which they who fought here have, thus far, so 
nobly advanced. 

It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task re¬ 
maining before us; that from these honored dead we take in¬ 
creased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full 
measure of devotion; that we here highly resolve that these 
dead shall not have died in vain; that this Nation, under God, 
shall have a new birth of freedom; and that government of the 
people, by the people and for the people, shall not perish from 
the earth. 


GOLDEN WORDS OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN. 


“Gold is good in its place; but living, brave and patriotic 
men are better than gold.” 

“ God must like common people, or he would not have made 
so many of them.” 

“ I am indeed very grateful to the brave men who have been 
struggling with the enemy in the field.” 

“This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people^ 
who inhabit it.” 



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‘‘ Let us have that faith that right makes right, and in that 
faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand 
it/’ 

“ The reasonable man has long since agreed that intemper¬ 
ance IS ONE OF THE GREATEST, if not the greatest, of all evils 
among mankind.” 

‘‘The purposes of the Almighty are perfect and must pre¬ 
vail, though we erring mortals may fail to accurately perfect 
them in advance.” 

“ Of the people, when they rise in mass in behalf of the 
Union and the liberties of their country, truly may it he said: 
‘ The gates of hell can not prevail against them ? ’ ” 

“ I appeal to you again to constantly hear in mind that with 
you (the people), and not with politicians, not with Presidents, 
not with office seekers, but with you, is the question, shall the 
Union, and shall the liberties of the country he preserved to 
the latest generation.” 

“ General Grant is a copious worker and fighter, but a very 
meager writer and telegrapher.” 

“ With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firm¬ 
ness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive 
on to finish the work we are in; to hind up the I^ation’s 
wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and 
for his widow and orphans; to do all which may achieve and 
cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all 
nations.” 


INSPIRING QUOTATIONS AND EXTRACTS FROM PATRI¬ 
OTIC ADDRESSES. 


To prepare for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace. 

Interwoven is the love of liberty with every ligament of the heart. 

Without virtue and without integrity, the finest talents and the most brilliant 
accomplishments can never gain the respect and conciliate the esteem of the truly 
valuable part of mankind.— George Washington. 

Humanity has won its suit in America, so that liberty will never more be 
without an asylum .—Marquis de Lafayette. 

In my opinion there never was a good war or a bad peace. 

Energy and persistence conquer all things .—Benjamin Franklin. 



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' Sir, I would rather be right than be President.— Henry Clay. 

Everyman must be for the United States or against it. There can be no 
neutrals in this war—only patriots or traitors. I express it as my conviction 
before God that it is the duty of every American citizen to rally ’round the flag 
of his country.— Stephen A. Douglass, 1861. 

Let us have faith that right makes might, and, in that faith, let us to the 
end dare to do our duty, with malice toward none, with charity for all, with 
firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right. 

Force is all conquering, but its victories are short-lived. 

Knavery and flattery are blood relations.— Abraham Lincoln. 

One flag, one land, one heart, one hand. 

One nation ever more ! 

—Oliver Wendell Holmes. 

Intellect is stronger than cannon.— Theodore Parker. 

I believe there are indications to-day in this country of a revival of love for 
.our flag; I could wish that no American would look ujmn it without saluting it. 

I rejoice in nothing more than in this movement, recently so prominently de¬ 
veloped, of placing a starry banned above every school house. I have been 
charged with too sentimental appreciation of the flag. I will not enter upon any 
defense. God pity the American citizen who does not love it, who does not see in 
it the story of our great free institutions, and the hope of the home as well as 
the Nation.— Benjamin Harrison. 

' ■ We hold these truths to be self-evident; that all men are created equal ; that 

they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among 
these are life, liberty, and the pursuits of happiness. The God who gave us life 
gave us liberty at the same time. — Thomas Jefferson. 

A star for every State, and a State for every star.— Robert C. Winthrop. 

If we are true to our country, in our day and generation, and those who come 
after us shall be true to it also, assuredly shall we elevate her to a pitch of pros¬ 
perity and happiness, of honor and power, never yet reached by any nation be¬ 
neath the sun,— Col. Geo. T. Balche. 

The union of hearts, the union of hands. 

And the flag of our Union forever.— G. P. Morris. 

Let the rising generation be inspired with an ardent love of their country, 
an unquenchable thirst for liberty, and a profound reverence for the Constitution 
and the Union. Let the American youth never forget that they possess a noble 
inheritance, bought by the toils and sufferings and blood of their ancestors.— 
Stoi'y. 

Go ring the bells, and fire the guns. 

And fling the starry banner out; 

Shout “Freedom!” till your lisping ones 
Give back their cradle shout. 

— Whittier. 

Before men made us citizens, great Nature made us men. 

Slow are the steps of Freedom, but her feet turn never backward.— Lowell. 

I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.— Nathan Hate. 


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The Declaration of Independence, with a voice of an angel from heaven, 
put to his mouth the sounding alchemy,” and proclaimed universal emancipa¬ 
tion upon earth — John Quincy Adams. 

Patriotism is not the mere holding of our Hag unfurled, hut making it the 
goodliest, grandest, and greatest in the world.— W. F. 

We join ourselves to no party that does not carry the flag and keep step to 
the music of the Union.— Rufus Choate. 

America! half brother of the world ! 

With something good and bad of every land; 

Greater than thee have lost their seat— 

Greater scarce none can stand. 

— P. J. Bailey. 

He that does good for good’s sake, seeks neither praise nor reward, though 
vsure of both at last.— William Penn. 

Love is never lost. If not reciprocated it will flow back and soften and 
purify the heart.— Washington Irving. 

Character is higher than intellect; a great soul will be strong to live, as well 
as strong to think.— Ralph Waldo Emerson. 

I love America and everything American.— Mrs. Levi P. Morton. 

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us 
by what-we have already done.— Henry W. Longfellow. 

There is room in this country for only one flag, and “Old Glory” must head 
the ])rocession, or it can not march.— Chauncey M. Depew. 

Every good citizen makes his country’s honor his own, and cherishes it, not 
only as precious, but as sacred. He is willing to risk his life in its defense, and 
is conscious that he protection while he gives it. Our Federal Union, it must 
be preserved.— Andreiv Jackson. 

Then said the mother to the son, 

And pointed to his shield— 

“Come with it when the battle’s done. 

Or on it from the field.” 

—Robert Montgomery. 

Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains 
and slavery? Forbid it Almighty God ! I know not what course others may 
take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!— Patrick Henry. 

There are two freedoms, the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; 
the true, where a man is free to do what he ought.—C/taWes Kingsley. 

Peace hath her victories. 

No less renowned than war. 

— Milton. 

I would not have the anniversaries of our victories celebrated, nor those of 
our defeats made fast days and spent in humiliation and prayer; but I would like 
to see truthful history written. Such history will do full credit to the courage, 
endurance, and soldierly ability of the American citizen, no matter what section 
of the country he hailed from, or in what ranks he fought. The justice of the 


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■«au8e which in the end prevailed will, I doubt not, come to be acknowledged by 
every citizen of the land in time. For the present, and as long as there are living 
witnesses of the great war of sections, there will be people who will not be consoled 
for the loss of a cause which they believed to be holy. As time passes, people 
even of the South will begin to wonder how it was possible that their ancestors 
ever fought for or justified institutions which acknowledged the right of property 
in man. 

What I am, I owe to my country. 

The true prosperity and greatness of a Nation is to be found in the elevation 
and education of its laborers. 

I do not believe in luck in war any more than in luck in business. Luck is a 
small matter; may affect a battle or a movement, but not a campaign or a career. 

We believe that we have a good government worth fighting for, and, if need 
be, dying for.— U. S. Grant. 

I trust the time is not far distant when in the North and South our people 
will sleep in peace and rise in liberty, love and harmony under the union of our 
flag of the stars and stripes. 

School houses are the Republic’s line of fortifications. 

Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without 
which neither justice nor freedom can be permanently maintained. 

There are some things I am afraid of: I am afraid to do a mean thing. 

The children of to-day will be the architects of our country’s destiny in 1900. 

—James A. Garfield. 

When Washington declined a military escort on the occasion of his inaugura- 
>'tion (1789), he said, “I require no guard but the affections of the people.” 

—Edward Evei'ett. 

Under God we are determined that wheresoever, whensoever, or howsoever we 
shall be called to make our exit, we will die free men.— Josiah Quincy. 

Such is the patriots boast, where’er we roam. 

His first, best country ever is at home. 

— Goldsmith. 

Be just, and fear not; let all the ends thou aim’st at, be thy country’s, thy 
God’s, and truth’s. 

I love my country’s good, with a respect more tender, more holy and pro¬ 
found, than my whole life.— Shakespeare. 

Then join in hand, brave Americans all; 

By uniting we stand, dividing we fall. 

—John Dickinson. 

I love freedom better than slavery. I will speak her words; I will listen to 
her music ; I will acknowledge her impulses; I will stand beneath her flag; I will 
fight in her ranks; and when I do so, I shall find myself surrounded by the great,, 
the wise, the good, the brave, the noble, of every land.— E. D. Baker. 


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But the colonial time-piece kept ticking, ticking, to the pressure of the Englislits 
Government, the giant wheels playing calmly, till 1775, when there was a strange 
stir and buzz within the case. But the sixtieth minute came and the clock struck. 
The world heard: The battle of Lexington, one; the Declaration of Independence, 
two; the surrender of Burgoyne, three; the siege of Yorktown, four; the treaty of 
Paris, live; the inauguration of Washington, six; and then it was sunrise ol the 
new day, of which we have seen yet only the glorious forenoon .—Thomm Starr King. 

Even the celestial hemisphere has caught the inspiration by an occasional 
patriotic display of the Aurora Borealis illuminating the northern horiron with an. 
immense outline of the stars and stripes in blue, red and white light studded with 
dazzling white crystal stars in a wavy sea of etherial blue, suspended frtHn the 
heavens by golden halyards, held, as it were, by unseen hands of our departed 
heroes, who died that patriotism and the dear old flag might live in the hearts «l 
their countrymen.— W. F. 

Oh, God of our fathers! this banner must shine 

Where battle is hottest, in warfare divine; 

The cannon has thundered, the bugle has blown,. 

We fear not the summons, we fight not alone. 

Oh, lead us till wide from the gulf to the sea 

The land shall be sacred to freedom and Thee. 

With love for the oppressed, with blessing for scars, 

' One country, one banner—the stripes and the stars. 

—Edna Dean Procto'r^ 

Lay me down and save the flag.— Col. James Mulligan. 

With patriotism in our hearts and with the flag of our country in the hands oT 
our children there is no danger of anarchy and there will be no danger to the 
Union.— Wm. McKinley, Jr. 

I have served my country under the flag of the Union for more thiaa fiftjr 
years; and as long as God permits me to live I will defend that flag with. m.y sword,, 
even if my own State assails it.— Lieut.-Oen’l. Winfield Scott. 

If I had my way I would hang the flag in every school-room and attempt to- 
impress upon all the supreme value of their inheritance.— Prof. Andrew S. Ihyxpa'. 

If any one attempts to haul down the American flag, shoot him on the 
spot.— Gen. John A. Dix. 

I am unmoved by any rancor or spirit of hatred, God forbid; but I ana a Union 
soldier, and I love my flag, and I say here, and I will say everywhere, that for 
Americans there is but one flag—the flag of Bunker Hill, and Saratoga, amd York¬ 
town; the flag of Lundy’s Lane, Lake Champlain, and Erie, and New Odeaais, the 
flag of*Scott, McDonough, Perry, and Jackson; the flag of Lincoln, the tag of 
Hancock, the flag of Grant, the flag of VYashington. It is the only flag which 
represents the right, and in our charity let us not forget the difference between 
right and wrong. — Gen. Daniel E. Sickles. 


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The monarchy is of men; the Republic is of divine origin. Our Republic 
can supply all the thrones of the Old World, from the ranks of her own citizens, with 
an abler set of rulers than they now have. It is better that 60,000,000 rule one 
than that one rule 60,000,000. 

But the men and women who were the actors during the great civil war did 
not do your work. That lies just before you. Listen to the voice of God and you 
will learn what your work is. You are living in a grand time; rise to the full 
measure of your possibilities and your life will be sublime. You will not be doing 
your work by wasting your time in frivolities; not in the saloon; not at the 
gaming table; not by feeding on the trashy reading with which the age is cursed. 
A true Christian character is the sure foundation of a successful life. Store your 
mind with useful knowledge. Set the glorious flag flying everywhere; lift it over 
every school-kouse. Teach your children what it symbolizes, what the principles 
at the foundation of our Government are. Banish the saloon; keep a watchful 
eye on the character of the foreigner who seeks our shore and yet refuses to uphold 
our treasured institutions. Eschew evil, fear God, and this Republic will con¬ 
tinue to be what it now is, the fairest among the nations of the earth.— Annie 
Wittenmyer. 

Who could not love and respect our beautiful flag of America, and say long 
may it wave over the land of the free and the true. The bravery we boast let it 
not be the love of war and bloodshed of our fellowman, because they do not en¬ 
tertain the same opinion and all have one mind and spirit as we have. But to 
this end, gentle law-makers. God-fearing men, can keep the peace and win many 
on the side of truth and virtue. The United States, the States that are united, 
must stand together as one—“United we stand, divided we fall.” The good and 
the true must hold it together. Union must be the watchword. Love of country 
is not love of party.— 3Irs. J. 31. D. F. 

Oh, sons of Massachusetts, first to rally, first to die ! 

The patriot fire within your hearts, its light within your eye, 

First gave to freedom’s faltering heart the promise and the cheer. 

—Anna Phillips Clarke, 

And everywhere 

The slender, graceful spars 

Pose aloft in the air. 

And at the masthead. 

White, blue and red, 

A flag unrolls—the Stripes and Stars. 

Oh ! when the wanderer, lonely, friendless, 

In foreign harbors shall behold 
The flag unrolled, 

’Twill be as a friendly hand 
Stretched out from his native land, 

Filling his heart with memories sweet and endless! 

—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 

There are two things holy—the flag, which represents military honor, and 
the law, which represents the national right.— Victor Hugo. 


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America, America, our country, our own dear and native land, is in¬ 
separably connected, fast bound up, in fortune and by fate, with these great in¬ 
terests! If they fall, we fall w'ith them; if they stand, it will be because we have 
upheld them. Let us contemplate, then, this connection, which binds the pros¬ 
perity of others to our own, and let us manfully discharge all the duties which it 
imposes. 

Let our object be our country, our whole country, and nothing but our 
country; and, by the blessing of God, may that country itself become a vast and 
splendid monument, not of oppression and terror, but of wisdom, of peace, and 
of liberty, upon which the world may gaze wdth admiration forever. 

On the diffusion of education among the people, rests the preservation and 
perpetuation of our free institutions. 

Whatever makes men good Christians, mates them good citizens. 

I was born an American ; 1 live an American; I shall die an American. 

One country, one constittition, one destiny .—Daniel Welmter. 

There is great need of educated men in our public life, but it is the need of 
educated men wuth patriotism. The college graduate may be, and frequently is, 
more unpatriotic and less useful in public affairs than the man w ith limited edu¬ 
cation .—Grover Cleveland. 


Democracy means not, '‘I am as good as you are,” but “You are as good as 
I am.”— Theo. Parker. 

Ta' e from your flag its folds of gloom, 

And let it float undimmed above. 

Till over all our vales shall bloom. 

The sacred colors that we love. 

—Ptaebe Carey. 

“As at the early dawn the stars shine forth even while it grows light, and 
then, as the sun advances, that light breaks into banks and streaming lines of 
color, the glowing red and intense white striving together and ribbing the horizon 
with bars effulgent. So on the American Hag, stars and beams of many-colored 
lights shine out together. And where this Hag comes, and men behold it, they see 
in its sacred emblazonry no ramping lions and no fierce eagle, no embattled castles 
or insignia of imperial authority; they see the symbols of light. It is the banner 
of dawm. It means Liberty; and the galley slave, the poor oppressed conscript, 
the dowm-trodden creature of foreign despotism, sees in the American Hag that 
verv promise and prediction of God, ‘The people wdiich sat in darkness saw'^ a 
great light, and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death light is 
sprung U}).’ ” 

The crow’d, exalting, fills with shouts the sky; 

The w’alls, the wmods, and long canals reply, 

Base Britons! tyrant Britons! knock under, 

Token’s your earl, soldiers and plunder. 

Huzza! what colors of the bloody foe! 

Twenty-four in number at the State House door! 

Look! they are British standards, how they fall 
At the President’s feet, Congress a>ul all! 


— Weiftcott. 


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'Oirr 'Hag carries American ideas, American history and American feelings, 
loginning with the colonies, and coming down to our time, in its sacred heraldry, 

its glorious insignia, it has gathered and stored chiefly this supreme idea: 
JKvwt right of liberty in man. Every color means liberty; every thread means 
liberty; every form of star and beam or stripe of light means liberty; not law¬ 
lessness, not license, but organized institutional liberty—liberty through law, and 
]!x.w 8 for liberty. It is a whole national history. It is the Constitution. It is the 
government. It is the free people that stand in the government on the constitu- 
tifon.—-fiecL Henry Ward Beecher. 

What-eloquence do the stars breathe when their full significance is known; a 
new constellation, union perpetuity, a covenant against oppression, justice, 
et|uality, s«boirdlnation, courage and purity.— Rear Admiral George H. Preble. 

I will treasure up the memory of the Nation’s dead and on every suitable 
occasion, as long as life lasts, will present them anew to the youth of this country, 
as noble examples of heroism and patriotism.— General William T. Sherman, 

Death never comes too soon, if necessary in defense of the liberties of our 
country.— J^dge Story. 

It as a matter of great anxiety and concern to me that the slave trade is 
sometimes perpetrated under the Hag of liberty, our dear noble Stars and Stripes, 
to which virtue and glory have been constant standard-bearers.— LaFayette. 

How I do wish that you could have looked down upon us when we threw the 
“‘^Stars and Stripes” to the breeze at 12 o’clock on the 26th. Our chaplain 
thanked God for having brought us from our place of danger, and prayed for our 
eountty, that our Hag might long continue to wave over a united and happy 
people. The Hag was then raised, the command presenting arms, and the band 
playing "^‘Tbe Star Spangled Banner,” after which three cheers were given for the 
flag and three for the Union. [Extract of a letter to a friend.]— Robert Ander- 
mn^ Fa. Sumter, S. C., December 30, 1860. 

Braver men never smiled at danger than those who fought under the Stars 
and Stripes, and whenever Death spread his banquet, “New Hampshire” fur- 
itished many guests. God Bless Forever! the living and the dead, who under 
the flag of our country marched to glory or the grave.— Governor Harriman. 

Thank God I the s'ruggle’s over, peace reigns in all our land. 

United now as brotliers, forever let ns stand; 

One flag, one country—Union—no North, South, East or West, 

Each vying with each other to do the very best; 

With millions of defenders to rally at its call, 

•^‘Old Glory ” is an emblem that truthful speaks to all; 

We love to look upon it as it proudly floats on high, 

No star is darkly blotted, no stripe but of royal dye. 

— B. Read Walesa. 

Thousands and tens of thousands of foreigners from the monarchies of the 
•old world, where from time immemorial, they and their children have been under 
theVjarrows of oppression, come pouring in through our open sea gates. Are we 
going to meet them with drawn swords and society against society, sect against 
sect, I'ace against race, restore all the horrors of the Middle Ages? 


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A thousand and ten thousand times, no! “Put u}) thy sword," said the 
Divine Master, “ they that concjuer by the sword shall perish by the sword." 

What, then, will you do, men who saved the Republic? The remedy is in 
your hands. Place the Hag over every school building and in every school room 
in the land. Then teach your children and the children of all nations flocking to 
your standard, those immortal principles of free government of which the Stars 
and Stripes is but the sign and symbol. 

A simple text-book on American citizenship, taught daily in our schools to 
all our children, would be worth more as a national defense than our entire school 
curriciilund combined; more than all the Gatling guns and improved rifles and 
steel plate armor combined.— Kate Brownlee Sherwood. 

A quarter of a century has passed since the Great Commander of the Union 
Army received the surrender of Lee at Appomattox, and as he stretched his ha-nd 
•out to take the hand of Lee, he said to him and to a weary Nation tired of war; 
“ Let us have peace." And we wish peace from one end of the land to the other ; 
and we wish at the same time to see the flag we love revered wherever it floats. 
We hope, too, the time is not far distant when it will be floating from every school 
house in the land. We wish to see it enshrined in the hearts and in the homes of 
every man, woman and child in this great Nation, even as the shadow of the 
•cross of the Saviour is enshrined in the heart of the believer.— R. A. Alger. 

Over Barbara hVeitchie’s grave 
Flag of Freedom and Union wave! 

Peace and order and beauty drawn 
Round thy symbol of light and law ; 

And ever the stars above look down 
On thy stars below in Fredericktown. 

—John G. Whittier. 

'The ])ast is past; the wild flowers bloom where charging squadrons met; 

And though we keep war’s memories green, why not the cause forget. 

And have, while battle-stains fade out ’neath heaven’s pitying tears. 

One Land, One Flag, one brotherhood, through all the coming years? 

— Thomas S. Collier. 

Patriotic men can not be produced in homes where patriotic women do not 
•exist. So, if one limits the consideration of women’s patriotism to the influence 
which it should exert in her home, a standing committee on patriotism ought to 
commend itself to the approval of the entire nation.— May Wright Sewall. 

If in love for our country you share 

And “The star-spangled banner" are versed in. 

You will know when the “bombs burst in air," 

’Twas a national air they burst in. 

— Judge. 

We want it distinctly understood that there is but one nation here, and that 
the American nation. Only the man who can distinguish between liberty and 
license is welcome here.— Rev. Father Dalton. 

What is ray arm, or my life, compared with the safety of my country.— aSWi- 
.ments of a Dying Soldier. 


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I yield in the love of my country to no man within the borders of it. My 
pride in this grand government is not overtopped by any. In its greatness I 
glory, in its unity I rejoice. And I hesitate not to assert that the mo«t intensely 
American spirit and pride which I have ever seen, can be found in the lowlands 
of Louisiana, behind the levees of the Mississippi. The Stars and Stripes have no 
more faithful lovers than the men of the new South.— W. S. Parkerson. 

All I’ve got to say is that the Canadians can’t pull down American Hags and 
tear them to pieces faster than I can make new ones.— Ben Butler. 

Train your children to love order and obey the laws; educate them in the 
public school in the simple elements of political economy and civil government. 
The public school is the safety-valve of the Republic; the public school in all its 
integrity, })rimary, grammar, high and normal school, including colleges and 
universities for men and women. But a safety-valve is something inoperative 
and needs to be carefully examined and readjusted at times, and the schools 
should now, for the safety of our Republic, be recpiired to make the systematic 
teaching of patriotic citizenship its first object. 

Make the beat use of the public schools by making sytematic instructions in patriotic 
citizenship the chief part of the course of study.- Thomas Hunter, President Xeio York 
Normal College. 

Education is the bulwark of our national liberties. 

The public school is the nursery of patriotism. Its best fruits are true 
Americans, and its crowning glory the making of loyal and intelligent citizens.— 
Rev. A. X. Whitmarsh. 

Our “White Squadron” is something more than a harmless symbol of 
national power and pride. It is not a Hock of doves. It means peace only when 
that is consistent with justice and honor. Harsh precautions, but, unhappily, 
necessary for the well-being of the Republic.— Uncle Sam’s Church. 

The American patriot has a different object in life from the Athenian patriot, 
or almost any other kind of patriot who ever lived before our government was 
founded. These other patriots defended themselves and their own children; they 
fought to hold their own power and the privileges of their own class. The 
American patriot lives for the great commonwealth. He does not defend merely 
his own rights; he does not vote for his own rights or his own interest. Show 
him what is best for all the people. He stands to defend and serve them. So 
Washington and the founders of the Republic seem to command. So Abraham 
Lincoln and the men who died in the civil war, urge. What American youth 
will not heed this heroic call ?— Chas. F. Dale. 

Teach the youth in the kindergarten to respect and honor the Hag of their 
country; it will be the stepping-stone to loyal Christian citizenship. Instruct 
them to reverently salute the Hag of the Union and the lesson it teaches. The 
effect of the salute will be magical in developing and (piickening their desire for 
more knowledge in the history of our country, and will fill their souls with a 
lofty patriotism that will remain indelible in their hearts, when they reach man¬ 
hood and womanhood.— Mrs. Eliza A. Blaker, Svpt. Indianapolis Kindergarten and! 
Domestic and Xormal Training Schools. 


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I note with a feeling of personal j)ride the teaching of patriotism in the public 
schools of our own dear land. The W. R. C. has proclaimed the key-note of its 
power in the development of patriotic teaching and stands to-day without a peer 
among the organizations of woman in the grand and glorious work for our be¬ 
loved country.— Mrs. Jennie Myerhoof. 

To have been soldiers in the cause of our county and fought its battles, won 
its victories and perpetuated its renown, and to be recognized as such, is the 
grandest insignia of life.— Geo. B. Loud. 

The bravest and best men with whom I came in contact during two great 
conflicts were Christian men, and I believe the better Christian a man is, the 
braver, truer and nobler he is in private and public life. I do not see how a man 
can be brave or useful unless he is a Christian.— GenJ Jas. Longstreet. 

Love your country, reverence its laws, take pride in perpetuating the name 
and fame of its defenders, be good citizens, and in this promote the glory and 
prosperity of our own beloved America.— Mrs. Millie B. Loud. 

We are Americans; we believe in American principles; and Americans 
should know and love their country, because in America there is more genuine 
liberty and happiness than any other country under the sun.— John S. Kountz. 


Fraternity, union now and forever. 

Between us again shall discord come never; 

The old flag above us is wondrously beautiful. 

Brighter and lovelier it seems every day : 

More glorious than ever, for under it dutiful 
Stand, to defend it, both the Blue and the Gray. 

— J. W. Morton, Jr. 


Columbia, my country, tliy stars are unfurled. 

Mild beaming with peace o’er a jarring world ; 

And well may we joy that Atlantic’s broad ocean 
Doth roll between thee and old Europe’s commotion. 

Thy broad-spreading empire, oh, long may it be 
The home of the patriot, the land of the free! 

—M. S. S. 

To-day beneath our nation’s flag. 

The old red, white and blue, 

A band of noble women work 
In a cause both just and true ; 

To aid and succor those who fought 
To save our honored land. 

For home and freedom, God and right. 

Those earnest women stand. 

— Geo. C. Davis. 


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'Po save our country from unseen danger let every patriotic American 
encourage the teaching of patriotism in our schools. Let parents and guardians 
insist that no teachers are employed except that they he imbued with a spirit of 
loyalty far above party power or party prejudice. 

The first lesson of patriotism should be taught at the mother’s knee when 
the innocent lips are taught to lisp “Our Father, who art in Heaven.” Teach 
them to love the word “country.” Teach them that the nobler act of a noble 
life is to die if need be, in its defense. Then insist that the lesson at the school 
be befitting the children of American citizens. Let the American flag be con¬ 
stantly in sight—in the home, in the street, in the school house, in the church. 
Let our love of God be mingled with our love of country. Let the flag be placed 
with the Holy Bible, one the emblem of loyalty and that freedom which God in¬ 
tended for his creatures, the other the teachings of humanity and God’s divine 
love for His children. I.iet the cross, precious emblem of our Saviour’s suffering, 
be entwined with the starry fields of the American flag, which represents the blood 
bought liberties we enjoy. The liberties of free government and the right to 
worship God according to the dictates of our own conscience.— Mrs. Julia S. 
Conklin, Inch 

The noble Nation is before my soul’s vision. Giant in stature, comely in 
feature, buoyant in the freshness of morning youth, matronly in prudent stepping, 
the etherial breezes of liberty waving with loving touch her tresses, she is, no one 
seeing her doubts, the queen, the conqueror, the mistress, the teacher of coming 
ages. 

To her keeping the Creator has entrusted a great continent, whose shores 
two oceans lave, rich in nature’s gifts, inclosing useful and precious minerals, 
fertile in soil, salubrious in air, beautious in vesture. For long centuries 
He held in reserve this region of His predilection, awaiting a propitious moment 
in humanity’s evolutions to bestow it upon man, when man was ready to receive 
it. Her children have come from all countries, bearing with them the ripest 
fruit of thought, labor and experience. Adding thereto high aspirations and 
generous impulses, they have built up a new world of humanity. This world 
embraces the hopes, the ambitions, the drearaings of humanity’s priests and seers. 
To its daring in the face of progress, to its sufferings at the shrine of liberty, 
there seems to be no limit; and yet, prosperity, order, peace, spread over its vast 
area their sheltering wings. 

The Nation of the future! Need I name it? Your hearts quiver loving it— 

“ My country ’tis of thee. 

Sweet land of liberty. 

Of thee I sing.” 

—Archbishop Ireland at Opening oj Columbian Exposition. 

Our cry is not that there should be less of emotional training for patriotism, 
not less of military training, but at all hazards systematic and substantial train¬ 
ing, not simply every Friday morning but every day, in the history, principles and 
practice of our government and of good citizenship. No man or woman should 
be admitted to teach in the primary or higher grades of school who has not been thus 
' trained. No teacher now teaching should be allowed to continue to teach who 
has not had such a training, unless a course of such a study is now begun, to be 
completed within a reasonable time.—LoAn Ireland, D. D. 


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THAT CARTOON OF ^91. 


[Doubtless there are many persons who will remember the cartoon of Decoration Day 
for ’91, in Puck, in which the artist has pictured “Reconciliation” twining garlands of 
flowers lovingly around a monument containing the statues of Grant, Sherman and Sheri¬ 
dan, and also one containing those of Lee, Jackson and Johnston, the same garland reach- 
ng from North to South, while the woman of the North and the woman of the South, gar- 
anded with wreaths the graves of their dead, casting at the same time suspicious glances 
towards each other, as the child of the North and the child of the South, in blissful igno¬ 
rance and loving innocence, exchange flowers from their mother’s baskets. The lesson is a 
feeautiful one, and well has the artist portrayed it.] 

It was only a simple cartoon— 

But sweet was the lesson it taught, 

Of love and tears alike for all, 

Who the battle so bravely fought. 

Yes, love and tears, after many years, 

We will strew with the flowers we’ve brought. 

Fling the garlands we twine from North to South ; 

Let-them float alike o’er all. 

So bravely each marched to the cannon’s mouth. 

Alike in death to fall. 

Whether friend or foe while here below, 

Above there is love for all. 

Aye, “a little child the world shall lead.” 

We will mingle our flowers in peace; 

We will sheathe the sword we no longer need, 

And hatred and anger shall cease. 

From the shadow of strife which darkend our life, 

Forever we’ll seek release. 

Ah! well hath the artist the lesson learned; 

He hath read between the lines ; 

“Except ye become as a little child,” 

So a garland for all ke twines. 

While the child of the North with the child of the South, 

The flowers of love combines 

—Lee Semans Hadley. 

As the days roll by and year succeeds year, the memories of the Civil War 
become more dim and distant. Its heroes pass on and beyond, but the object for 
which they gave their lives must forever be preserved. It is, therefore, wise and 
fitting that the mothers, wives, sisters, daughters and loyal women of the Woman’s 
Relief Corps should take the little ones by the hand, and from the lessons of the 
past teach them their duty as to the future welfare and happiness of their country. 
In what more impressive manner can this be done than by saluting the Flag of 
our Country ?—Emma R. Wcdlace, Nat*I Preset TF. R. C. 



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THE MAN WITH THE MUSKET. 


Soldiers, pass on from this rage of renown, 

This ant-hill commotion and strife. 

Pass by where the marbles and bronzes look down 
With their fast-frozen gestures of liie. 

On out to the nameless who lie ’neath the gloom 
Of the pitying cypress and pine; 

Your man is the man of the sword and the plume. 

But the man of the musket is mine. 

I knew him! By all that is noble, I knew 
This commonplace hero I name ! 

IVe camped with him, marched with him, fought with him, too,. 

In the swirl of the fierce battle-flame! 

Laughed with him, cried Avith him, taken a part 
Of his canteen and blanket, and know 
That the throb of this chi\’alrous prairie boy’s heart 
Was an answering stroke of my oAvm. 

I knew him, I tell you! And also 1 knew. 

When he fell on the battle-swept ridge. 

That the poor battered body that lay there in blue 
Was only a plank in the bridge. 

Over which some should pass to a fame 

That shall shine while the high stars shall shine! 

Your hero is known by an echoing name. 

But the man of the musket is mine! 

I knew him! All through him the good and the bad 
Ban together and equally free; 

But I judge as I trust Christ Avill judge the brave lad. 

For death made him noble to me! 

In the cyclone of war, in the battle’s eclipse. 

Life shook out its lingering sands. 

And he died Avith the names that he loved on his lips. 

His musket still grasped in his hands! 

Up close to the flag my’^ soldier Avent doAvn, 

In the salient front of the line. 

You may take for your heroes the men of renown. 

But the man of the musket is mine! 


— Rev. Harry S. Taylor, Ills.. 



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It is needless to remind you that national greatness depends upon intelligent, 
<iod-loving patriotism, a patriotism that must spring from love of native land, 
■ol)edience to her laws and founded upon Christian manhood. A true patriot is a 
devout patriot, and America’s eminence to-day among the nations of the earth is 
due to her devotion to the same stirring battle-cry “for God and native land.” 
The Christian is the unswerving patriot. In him rest the hopes of our coun¬ 
try’s progress; the realized dream of future glories. Our country’s flag is tlie 
symbol of liberty; the a^gis for the oppressed, the foe to ignorance and super¬ 
stition, and the harbinger of civil and religious liberty. As such our country’s 
flag must find a place in your ranks, side by side with your grand standard of the 
blessed Emanuel, the Prince of Peace. Not that it is necessary that you should 
advertise your patriotism, or that our flag must float over your ranks to prove 
that you are loyal men, but rather to emphasize the fact that the Order of Chris¬ 
tian Knighthood is our country’s true defenders.— Mrs. W. F. Kuhn, Mo. 


WHAT IS PATRIOTISM? 


INSPIRATIONS FROM THE SONS AND DAUGHTERS OF 

PATRIOTS. 

True patriotism consists in doing one’s whole duty in times of peace as well 
as war. It is better to live for one’s country than to die for it. What the country- 
needs to-day is good citizens, whether they be voters or not. Citizens who are 
familiar with these great bulwarks of American liberty—the Declaration of In¬ 
dependence and the Constitution of the United States. Every woman should have 
a copy of the Constitution and study it. Its study would be no more fatiguing 
than to put together a crazy quilt, and vastly more invigorating' and’Tielpful to 
the rising generation. How can we support that of whichlwe^have no knowledge? 
Not one person in a thousand has read over the Constitution a dozen^times. The 
provisions contained therein are taken on hearsay. A bright woman said not long 
ago that she knew how the Constitution began. It is “ All men are born free and 
equal .”—Ellen S. Mussey, Washington, D. C. 

A loyal and unswerving devotion in the flag and] the institutions ^of one’s- 
Government. It is a zealous love of country, that is neither corrupted nor con¬ 
sumed by mercenary motives, nor blasted nor chilled by adversity, l)ut remains- 
firm even when life is at stake .—John E. Haslacker, W. Va. 

Patriotism is love of country. 

Likewise love of mankind; 

To thoughts of self it never turns. 

And is to danger ever blind. 

For this will man leave home and friends. 

And all that life holds dear. 

And silencing his anguished heart. 

And dashing away the parting tear, 

Will rush into the arms of death— 

Aye, even welcoming the grave. 

In ofifering himself a sacrifice. 

His country he may save. 

Deeds of charity are sweet. 

And show greatness of heart. 

But greatness of heart, mind and soul 
Are combined in the patriot. 

Great deeds of valor oft are done, 

By men expectant of applause; 

But the true patriot ever feels 

’Tis enough to die in Liberty’s cause. 

That word has thrilled all Nations, 

E’er since the world began ; 

’Tis the greatest name beneath the heavens. 

Whereby man dies for man. — S. Bailey'N Y 




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The passion which aims to serve one’s country, either defending it from 
invasion or protecting its rights, and maintaining its laws and institutions in 
vigor and purity. It is the noblest passion that animates man and makes him an 
honorable and useful citizen .—Grace G. Hunt, Ohio. 

That feeling of love and pride that makes us live and dare to die for our 
country, that seeks to preserve our sacred institutions from harm, and to hand 
down our inheritance of Liberty unsullied to those who succeed us.— T. E. Hick- 
mon, Ark. 

Patriotism is the love of our country; it is the passion which aims to serve 
our country, either in defending it from invasion or protecting its rights and 
maintaining its laws and institutions in vigor and purity; it is the characteristic 
of a good citizen, the noblest passion that animates man .—Rhoda Sehl, Iowa. 

Loyalty to God and country we love. 

Our rich heritage from Heaven alrove; 

The sacred shrine whereat we bow, 

And reverently worship high and low. 

• Patriotism enthuses the hearts of the brave. 

Inspired the heroes who our land did save; 

And all who for love of country die 

Martyrs for freedom and loyalty. —Addie B. Rohertx, 111. 

Devotion to equal rights and justice to all, as a principal of a National Govern¬ 
ment.— Wayland F. Webber, TPi.s. 

The love that makes men leave their dear ones and homes to face the leaden 
rain of bullets and death in every form that they may defend their loved country 
from those who wish to destroy it .—Edith M. Haines, Mo. 

The grateful reciprocity of paternal protection, and the divine Hame of love 
that burns brightest in adversity and sheds its impartial rays on all who answer 
to the name of brother; it is the inspiration that creates heroic living, and the 
aspiration that emulates sacrificial dying.— A. 31artin, Ky. 

’Tis love for our country, with duty fulfilled, 

’Tis helping to govern as God has willed; 

’Tis loyalty shown, maintaining the cause 
Of National honor, and keeping the laws, 

A citizen’s glory, a Nation’s delight, 

’Tis serving our country with might and right. 

— Mrs. .Josephine Llewellyn, III. 

Patriotism, love of country, 

Inborn in Columbia’s sires; 

Love of home, love of freedom. 

To great deeds the heart inspires. 

Laying life on Liberty’s altar— 

All for flag and country’s sake. 

Duty, God and sacred honor. 

May it e’er to freedom w^ake. 

—Anna M. J\ocher, Pa. 


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That which animates one who is ready, at the first tap of the drum, to lay 
down everything—lucrative position, comforts of home and society—when his 
country calls for volunteers for the defense of the Stars and Stripes, without- 
hope of reward.— Andrew J, Grayson, 3Iadison, Ind. 

The emotion or impulse in man, which, regardless of consequences to him¬ 
self, impels him to lend his aid to secure the furtherance and execution of all 
schemes whereby the welfare of his country is most enhanced and the greatest 
amount of happiness secured to his countrymen.— W. S. Riley, 3Io. 

That which animates the typical citizen, one whose love of home and country 
is so great as to influence his every act for their happiness and prosperity, and 
who freely makes sacrifices of self for that end.— C. W. Colby, III. 

True devotion to country and flag. 

Stand in front and never lag; 

With Cionstitution and the laws. 

Strive to maintain an honest cause. 

If required, on land or sea afloat. 

Fight with guns, as well as vote. 

Nullification or any ism. 

This is what we call patriotism. 

G. W. Kendrick, Ore. 

Loving our country, rejoicing in its prosperity; ever ready to defend it; al¬ 
ways true to its best interests.—il/mta Lavy, 0. 

Patriotism means love of country, to be interested in its welfare, and to> lend 
our influence in the direction that will best benefit the people as a whole; to re¬ 
gard our native land above all others, and to be willing to give our lives to its 
protection if need be.— Carry 31. Broirn, 0. 

The absorbing love in the breast of true patriots among mankind; the love 
that makes them loyal to rulers, gives them courage to bid adieu to all that is 
dear, face dangers and battles, suffer imprisonment or death, that their country 
may be preserved and their flag kept floating.— 31. 31. Kersehner, la. 

Patriotism is a fire that burns within the soul. 

It’s a flame that never flickers, nor does it e’er grow cold ; • 

It’s an inborn love for country whose honor and whose life. 

One would give his very life blood, leave mother, home and wife. 

—Jane C. Harvey, 3Iinn. 

Heartfelt love for one’s country and the national flag, eml)lem of the country. 
All who are patriotic have respect for and obey its Constitution and laws, if they 
are righteous laws, and are willing to aid, yes, offer their lives, to protect their 
country in all just causes.— Adah Bell Bicknell, N. Y. 

A love so great and powerful that it subdues all selfish feelings gives us the 
strength and courage to endure cold, hunger, hardship, suffering, and brave death 
in every shape for our country. — Christian Simenson, 3Iinn. 

To love, honor and obey the just laws of your country, to emulate the deeds 
of those who fought in her defense, to teach others to do likewise, and, if need 
be, to give your life for your country. — Florence G. Crossman, R. I. 


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That which animates my soul 
With fervor that I can not hide, 

The noblest passion of earthly love, 

Of life a joy and pride, 

Is patriotism, my country’s love. 

However humble it may be ; 

Just the same with a millionaire 
As it is, dear friends, with me. 

—Homer C. Miller, Teiin. 

That emotion which fills the heart of man with love for his country.— Hattie 
L. Hunt, 0. 

A love for country is so great that one would sacrifice everything and die 
rather than betray his country. And if a man has true patriotism he will defend 
his country whenever the opportunity is oftered.— M. Lenna Streeter, Mich. 

An intense love for God, truth and country; like a bright and shining light 
springing from the depths of love in our hearts, as from an ever-flowing fountain, 
inextinguishable only as the heartstrings break in death.— Allen Marlin, Kan 

Is that love which causes a man to forsake home, wife, mother, children, and 
all that is near and dear, and offer his service and life, if need be, for his coun¬ 
try.—/. W. Goh, Ky. 

Is the sea over which the craft of the Government of the United States sails, 
and where the sailors ever keep the stars and stripes floating in the breeze of 
freedom.— J. 0. Silverwood, Kan, ' • 

Is the love of one’s country; it contains the true meaning of all together; in 
fact, it is the principle in the character of a man which spurs him on to do or to 
die for his country.— E. lU. Goodlm, 0. 

The gratitude and sympathy we feel towards great men and loyal women, and 
the labor of love we bestow on the old soldiers of this, our beloved country.— Mrs. 
Mary E. Hunt, 0. 

That love which nerves men to maintain the rights of the people and the 
country regardless of consequences, as our ancestors and sires have done in days 
gone by. —Lou M. Staring, Tenn. 

To love our country as we should God and humanity.— Mildred N. Baldwin, 0. 

Is that God-given gift, or faculty, which enables a man to honestly, deeply 
and sincerely appreciate his country and hold it in sacred remembrance always.— 
W. C. Horton, N. J. 

A love for our country and our country’s flag; it is the love for our home, for 
he spot where we live, were brought up and taught to love from infancy; not the 
love of another country, l)ut for our own. —Ida M. Koontz, Ind. 

Love of God and our country, and the willingness to leave everything that is 
dear, if need be, to serve, protect, or stand up for our God and our country.— 
Lillie T^. Clark, 111. 


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The second brightest jewel in the crown of manhood ; the first being love of 
God.— yI. P. Goff, N. Y. 

That love and devotion which inspires us to meet nobly and unselfishly any 
service required of us for our country’s welfare.— A. Grace, Pa. 

That devotion which makes persons willing to render their country a service 
through love of it, without thought of pecuniary gain.— Theo. Gieszlaman, III. 

Ivove for God and home and native land.— Alice Gender, Ohio. 

That love which enables one to speak, fight and even dare to die for his 
country.— Lillian Stormont, Ind. 

A true love of country, whether manifested in time of war or peace.— Burt 
Stone, la. 

Patriotic instruction should begin in the home, where the infiuence should be 
one breathing the great poet’s injunction, “Be just and fear not; let all the ends 
thou aims’t at be thy country’s, thy God’s and Truth’s. Under the formative care 
of the best of teachers, a good mother, the elements that go to build up a patriotic 
spirit will be instilled. She will teach her children the national hymns and pa¬ 
triotic songs, she will tell them the story of that sturdy band of puritans, who 
planted the seeds of American civilization, and upon Plymouth’s sacred rock laid 
the corner-stone of the nation. She will tell them of the supreme patriot, he who- 
was “first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen,” and 
of that distinguished line of patriots down to our day. She will teach them how 
grand a thifag it is to ac(pure the principles of obedience to law, of love and ven¬ 
eration for the stars and stripes as the emblem of liberty and national supremacy. 
Every child should be taught the origin of the fiag, when it was adopted, what 
trials it has encountered, and what blessings preserved. It should be in every 
home to be cherished, loved and honored. Let patriotism be taught in the home, 
the school, the college, in the pulpit and on the platform, let it be an inspiration 
to society, in the office and in the shop. Let love of country sweep the heart¬ 
strings of the youth of this land, let it touch the souls of the children who are so 
soon to become the guardians of the laws and freedom of our country. Let it 
move the family circle and brighten the flames upon the hearthstones of the land. 
Let the Nation be a nursery of men and principles such as inspired the founders 
of the Government.— Mrs. Loxme Barnum Bobbins, Mich. 


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WHAT IS OUR FLAG? 


INSPIRATIONS FROM THE SONS AND fDAUGHTERS OF 

PATRIOTS. 


THE TRIUMPHANT AMERICAN FLAG. 


BY SUPT. WM. CONNELL, FALL RIVER, MASS. 


{Tune :—“Auld Lang Syne.”) 

The Flag that speaks of Bunker Hill, 

Of minute men and gun. 

Of Saratoga and Yorktown,— 

Fierce battles fought and won. 

Chorus: 

That Flag we’ll raise upon our school, 
With stars now forty-four; 

Triumphant Red, and White and Blue, 

• The Flag our fathers bore. 

The Flag that waved o’er Gettysburg 
On those eventful days; 

The Flag our boys in blue upheld 
’Mid battle’s storm always. 

Cho. — That Flag we’ll raise, etc. 

The Flag that Lincoln’freed from stain, 
]ly setting bondmen free,— 

The Flag that can forgive a wrong,— 
Rebellion though it be,— 

Cho. — That Flag we’ll raise, etc. 

The Flag that drew rebellious men 
Into the T'nion fold,— 

The Flag that is respected now 
In States both new and old,— 

Cho ,— That Flag we’ll raise, etc. 

The Flag that now waves o’er onr homes, 
Protecting weak and strong,— 

The Flag that vindicates the right, 

And juinishes the wrong,— 

Cf.^,-~^That Flag we’ll raise, etc. 






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Tlirough wliat scenes has our flag not passed? what storms of shot and shell? 
how many have lived for it? how many have its folds draped in death? how 
many living and dying have said: ‘‘O, the flag, the glorious stars and stripes!” 
It is the same old flag inscribed with the dying words of Lawrence : “ Don’t give 

up the ship,” that was hoisted on Lake Erie on the eve of Perry’s great naval 
victory. What countries has it not visited, the pride of its friends, the terror of 
its foes! None but tyrants hate it! All who sigh for progress and patriotism love 
and honor it!— Fannie C. Steele, Mo. 

Our glorious flag has led the braves to victory ; it has floated over our cradles; 
let it be our prayer that it float in triumph above our graves.— Walter F. Senor, 
Texas, 

The colors are Union, Peace and Freedom. The white is the celestial white- 
nes3 of Heaven; the blue is the sky; the red is the morning light. Each star is a 
State, and the stripes are the thirteen Colonies that won their independence. — Geo. 
W. Burton, Ills. 

I have no room for any one who is not willing to vow allegiance to that flag 
which is powerful enough to shield and protect us in the exercises of civil and re¬ 
ligious liberty. Our flag is the symbol of all that makes a ]aome for us.— M. Bur- 
lison, TFis. 

The red, white and blue—fervency, purity and truth—holds in its meaning to 
us freedom, and it has been said, “Freedom can never die. ”— Ernest R. Ostrom, Iowa. 

Our flag, the stars and stripes! Emblem of freedom, of justice and true 
American patriotism and loyalty.— Lillian Knight, Minn. 

The American flag is symbolic of liberty and union, purity and strength. Let 
us strive to keep it so; pure, strong and just. May it remain for ages to shed its 
patriotic influence on all American citizens, and may its luster never grow dim. 
Let us hope that our Nation is steadily marching forward, onward and upward, 
and the sword of combat is forever sheathed in the scabbard of peace. Let us 
encourage and foster patriotism in our own hearts, and strive to awaken it in the 
hearts of the rising generation, that our flag may ever be supported and de¬ 
fended.— Marie H Oliver, Iowa. 

How our hearts thrill with joy as we behold this beauteous emblem of liberty 
floating in the air over the school-houses or other public buildings. It tells of 
many hard-fought battles, many soldiers wounded and many homes made deso¬ 
late, that it might represent America’s freedom and jjroclaim her peace to all 
nations.— Edith M. Haynes, Mo. 

Glorious emblem of the nation’s purity and grace, progress and patriotism; 
made sacred by the lives sacrificed in the cause of freedom and justice to all. 
Every true American heart, as he beholds this victorious banner, thrills with joy 
and pride that he may stand beneath its folds and say, “God bless our country 
and our flag!”— Ella V. Garton, South Dakota. 

May we one and all ever love and cherish the glorious stars and stripes; may 
we always remain true and patriotic that we may say, “We are a grand fraternity, 
working for a noble cause.”— Maggie Belle Hand, IFis. 

The flag is the emblem of our country. It is our pride, our companion an-d 
our protector.— IF. L. Hedges, Wis. 


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The grandest, most beautiful emblem of liberty that floats to the breeze, be¬ 
neath the ever watchful eye of Almighty 6od.—G. E. Hounson, Mo. 

As I read the never dying Declaration of Independence asserting the inalien¬ 
able rights of man, as I study the Constitution of our Nation giving us the rights 
of liberty bought with precious blood, as I love my country and my country’s flag, 
the most beautiful and significant emblem ever unfurled to the winds of heaven, 
with the grandest galaxy of stars that ever shone o’er enlightened men, then I 
say, palsied be the tongue that would speak a word other than in praise.— 
Lutie Fairbanks, Mo. 

When we see the flag floating so proudly, it reminds us of something that 
happened over one hundred years ago, and that was independence and liberty. 
Thirteen stripes for the Union now, and forty-four stars for the Union maintained 
our glorious banner bears.— Arthur L. Hynds, Tex. 

The American flag is an emblem of American characteristics in national life; 
white the emblem of purity, red of valor, and blue of justice. It represents 
everything that is dear to us, and is our emblem of national power and honor.— 
Carrie HorneLl, Mo. 

Our Hag, that sacred emblem of liberty, under whose folds numberless heroes 
have nobly fought and bravely perished for their country, should have a place of 
deep affection.in the hearts of every American citizen.— Jas. F. Batts, Mo. 

The red, white and blue colors of our flag are symbolic of Divine love, truth, 
hope an loyalty. Their language is valor, purity and sincerity; they are em¬ 
blematic of war, peace and justice.-— Geo. E. Hunter, hid. 

The Star Spangled Banner, that has had so many historical changes since its 
birth, will doubtless have many more, is very dear to our country. If the tales 
it bears in its fields of scenes of sorrow and triumph it has witnessed could be 
told, what volumes it would fill. May every boy and girl always revere this 
brave old flag. —Nellia 1). Hampton, 0. 

Our Nation’s pride and defense, emblem of unity, liberty and justice, ani¬ 
mating the progress of our fd,ir land and winning the admiration of the w'orld.— 
Flora Deli Ellis, Ind. 

May the red, white and blue wave forever peacefully over us.— Lee Berry, Pa. 

Old Glory! Starry flag of the free! I pledge my life and service to thee ; and 
so will every true American.— M. Couch, Iowa. 

Emblamatic of fame, glory and honor; emitting from its starry folds a 
thousand rays of love, hope and peace to all.— Ora A. Kost, Mich. 

When Old Glory kisses the vagrant winds, the fingers of one hand would 
doubtless number those who knew the origin of the American flag. The children 
of the present generation will be wiser, however, and when their children come 
upon the scene of action, there will scarcely be a home sheltered by the starry 
emblem with inmates so ignorant that they will not know its history.— Isabel Wor¬ 
rell Ball. 


“The soldier who resented your insult to the Stars and Stripes was born under 
its folds, and his father before him. He still retains a respect and affection for 
it, and an officer of the Confederate Army who has no higher appreciation of the 
sentiment of our people than you appear to have, by trailing the Stars and Stripes 
in the dust, is not fit to be on my staff .”—Stonewall Jackson. 

(Reprimand to an officer.) 

The American Hag has never been trailed in the dust by foreign or domestic 
foe. Wherever it has floated to the breeze, in every sea and upon every land, 
it has been welcomed by all people, of all nations, as the inspiration to humanity, 
to society, to the attainment of equal rights. Let the old flag speak to the chil¬ 
dren in the schools from one end of the land to the other. Let this symbol utter 
the voice of freedom upon every festive occasion .—Sarah C. Mink. 


Its stripes of red, eternal dyed with heart streams of all lands; 

Its white, the snow-capped hills, that hide in storm their upraised hands; 
Its blue, the ocean waves that beat round freedom’s circled shore; 

Its stars, the print of angels’ feet that burn forevermore. 

—James Whitcomb Riley. 


I pledge allegiance to my Flag, and 
The Republic for which it stands— 

One Nation indivisible. 

With Liberty and Justice for All. 

—Frank Bellamy. 

Every boy and girl should lift their hat and salute reverently when they pass 
their teacher in the public school. They are the guardian angels of the Repub¬ 
lic.—IF. F. 


THE LIBERTY BELL. 


“Proclaim liberty throughout the land and to the inhabitants thereof.” 

The bell was made in London; it weighed 2,000 pounds and cost nearly $500. 

It has on it the words, “Proclaim liberty throughout the land and to the 
^habitants thereof.” 

The bell was cracked when it was brought to this country in 1752, and two 
men recast it. It was hung in the State House in Philadelphia in 1753. 

This was the first bell to ring and tell the people of the signing of the Decla¬ 
ration of Independence, July 4, 1776. 

After fifty years more it became so badly cracked that it could not be used. 
It is still kept in the old State House. 


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We sing of thee to-day, O Bell, 

Loud let our tones of music swell 
All o’er the land; let all be free, 

And sing, O Bell, to-day of thee. 

—Elsie Lowry, Ind., 13 years of age. 

Old Liberty Bell, old Liberty Bell! 

How did your ring sound out so well? 

Your ring was pure and clear. 

This makes us love our country dear. 

—Emil Camphausen, Ind., 14 years of age. 


We welcome this bell for its teachings alone. 

This bell so true and so grand— 

It stands for Liberty, Justice and Right, 

The glory and pride of the land. 

—Samuel K. Selig, Ind., 12 years of age. 


What though ’tis voiced weak and low— 

We know ’twas once a joyous swell. 

And must we never, never know 

The sound of thy voice, and its spell? 

• —Marie Page, Ind., 13 years of age. 






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PRINCIPLES. 


WE BELIEVE: 

]. In the principles of the Declaration of Independence—That all men are 
created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain 
inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of 
happiness. 

2. That good character, intelligence and helpful kindness to all creatures are 

the basis of true citizenship. 

3. That the public, in assuming the education of children, becomes responsible 

to them not only for physical, industrial, mental and moral culture, but 
also for special training, to the end that they shall be most happy, useful 
and patriotic while children, and become intelligent and faithful citizens.. 

4. That it is our duty to consecrate ourselves to the service of our country, to- 

study the history and principles of our Government, to faithfully dis¬ 
charge all obligations of citizenship, to improve our laAvs and their 
administration, and to do all which may fulfill the ideal of the founders 
of our Kepublic—a government of the people for the people and by the 
people, of equal rights for all and special privileges for none, and to the 
maintenance of such a government we truthfully pledge to one another 
our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor. 

5. That we should endeavor to lead others to understand, accept and extend 

these principles and to uphold and defend the institutions of our country. 













THE YOUNG CITIZEN^S PLEDGE 

OF THE 

PATRIOTIC LEAGUE. 


I am a CITIZEN of AMERICA and HEIR to all her Greatness and Renown. 

As the health and happiness of my body depend upon each muscle and nerve 
and drop of blood doing its work in its place, so the health and happiness of my 
country depend upon each citizen doing his work in his place. I will not fill any 
post, or pursue any business where I shall live upon my fellow-citizens w'ithout 
doing them useful service in return; for I plainly see that this must bring suffer¬ 
ing and want to some of them. 

As it is cowardly for a soldier to run away from the battle, so is it cowardly 
for any citizen not to contribute his share to the well-being of his country. 
America is my own dear land; she nourishes me, and I will love her and do my 
duty to her, whose child, servant and civil soldier I am. 

I will do nothing to desecrate her soil, or pollute her air, or to degrade her 
children, who are my brothers and sisters. I will try to make her cities beautiful 
and her citizens healthy and glad, so that she may be a most desirable horue for 
ber children in days to come. 

I accept the Principles of the Patriotic League for my own and subscribe 
myself a Member. I will do the best I can to live and act by them every day. 


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THE FORTRESS OF LIBERTY. 

1 

** The hope of the Nation is the public schools, the emblem of the 
Nation is the Flag; let the two be united,” 


“ Let, then, each public school possess 
^ The flag. :vhose virtues we confess; 

To teach our country’s hope—the young— 

The source from whence our greatness sprung. 
And ever keep before their eyes, 

A token of the sacrifice 

Offered by freemen true and brave. 

Our liberties to gain and save.” 

“ Columbia, take now thy stand 
In every school house in the land ; 

And to our eager youth unfold 
The story of those days of old. 

When freemen gathered at the call 
To struggle, bleed, in death to fall. 

So that the banner of thy choice 
Might wave to make the world rejoice.” 










The Cradle oe Liberty, 




LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 


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INDEPENDENCE HALL. PHILADELPHIA. 

In which the Declaration of Independence was signed by 56 representa¬ 
tives of the States, July 4 th, 1776 . 


The building was--- 

^ Commenced, 1732 . 

_ —-c Completed, 1741 . 

... ..'i Occupied as “ The State House,” October, 1735 . 

'• Tower built, 1750 . 


In this old building was the scene of almost all the civil events of the 

Revolution. 



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